ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,491, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Scaling a 3D volume in extended reality" was invented by Mason Spong (Provo, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extended Reality (XR) system provides methodologies for scaling a virtual object in an XR user interface of the XR system. The methodologies include providing to a user an XR user interface of an XR system, where the XR user interface includes a virtual object displayed to the user. The XR system determines a pinch location of a pinch hand pose being made by the user and scales the virtual object based on the pinch location and a virtual object cen...