ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,044, issued on March 31.

"Systems and methods for providing real-time composite video from multiple source devices featuring augmented reality elements" was invented by Russell Holmes (Otley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for superimposing the human elements of video generated by computing devices, wherein a first user device implemented as a mixed reality headset and second user device capture and transmit video to a central server which analyzes the video to identify and extract human elements, superimpose these human elements upon one another, adds in at least one augmented reality element, and ...