ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,311, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Private sharing of location data for extended reality rendering" was invented by Paul Mclachlan (San Francisco), Hector Caltenco (Oxie, Sweden) and Sara Thorsson (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of an electronic device in an edge cloud of a mobile network supports extended reality localization of an object having a location in the real world where the location is stored as location information in a database in the mobile network. The method includes receiving a request from an application of a user equipment, the request for l...