ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,783, issued on July 8, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Time synchronization for shared extended reality experiences" was invented by Jordy Innocentius Ajanohoun (Vienna), Markus Diem (Vienna), Georgios Evangelidis (Vienna) and Matthew Penney (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first extended reality (XR) device and a second XR device are colocated in an environment. The first XR device captures sensory data of a wearer of the second XR device. The sensory data is used to determine a time offset between a first clock of the first XR device and a second clock of the second XR device. The first clock and the secon...