ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,011, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Zeality Inc (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Method and processing unit for controlling field of view of a user in an immersive environment" was invented by Dipak Mahendra Patel (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, processing unit, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for controlling view of user in immersive environment. Input, in form of an aperture, is received from presenter to control the view. A real-time scene is analyzed to identify viewable objects and spatial image layers are created based on the aperture. Further, by sequentially combining the plurality of spatial ...