ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,887, issued on April 14, was assigned to Avid Technology Inc..
"Augmented reality control surface" was invented by William Lurie (Alamo, Calif.), Steven H. Milne (Palo Alto, Calif.), Edward Jones (Boulder Creek, Calif.) and Richard Nevens (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality overlay of a physical control surface is displayed on augmented reality glasses worn by an operator of the control surface. The overlay appears to be part of the control surface by simulating a virtual silk-screen or floats over the surface. The overlay serves a variety of functions that assist the operator to mix multiple channe...