ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,144, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Blackbaud Inc. (Charleston, S.C.).

"Method and system for facilitating augmented reality environments through facial recognition" was invented by Luis Roberto Teixeira Pereira (Valencia, Spain), Jainudeen Azlan Cuttilan (Surrey, Great Britain), Peter K. Lukich (Hanahan, S.C.) and Heather Holland Templeton (Charleston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality system and method for facilitating one or more transactions via facial recognition. In accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure, an augmented reality system comprises an augmented reality display rendered at a...