ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,865, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"System and method for positioning objects within an environment" was invented by Fabio Cappello (London), Danjeli Schembri (London), Mandana Jenabzadeh (London), Oliver Hume (London) and Michael Lee Jones (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for positioning objects within an environment includes: an input unit operable to receive data representative of at least a portion of an environment comprising one or more features associated with the environment; an object determining unit operable to identify, for one or more objects, one or more...