ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,478, issued on May 6, was assigned to Ultrahaptics IP Two Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Rerendering a position of a hand to decrease a size of a hand to create a realistic virtual/augmented reality environment" was invented by Alex Marcolina (Los Angeles) and David Holz (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to a method of realistic rendering of a real object as a virtual object in a virtual space using an offset in the position of the hand in a three-dimensional (3D) sensory space. An offset between expected positions of the eye(s) of a wearer of a head mounted device and a sensor a...