ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,093, issued on May 27, was assigned to UIPCO LLC (San Antonio).

"Local physical environment modeling in extended reality environments" was invented by Ravi Durairaj (San Antonio), Marta Leigh Argumedo (Helotes, Texas), Sean C. Mitchem (San Antonio), Ruthie Lyle (Durham, N.C.), Nolan Serrao (Plano, Texas), Bharat Prasad (San Antonio) and Nathan L. Post (Rockport, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an environmental scanning tool that generates a digital model representing the surroundings of a user of an extended reality head-mounted display device. The environment is imaged in both a depth map and in visible ligh...