ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,893, issued on April 21, was assigned to BRAINLAB SE (Munich).

"Conjunction of 2D and 3D visualizations in augmented reality" was invented by Florentin Tranchant (Munich), Oliver Fleig (Baldham, Germany), Maximilian Schindler (Munich) and Falko Seifferth (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing an augmentation (12) of a user's visual perception of the real world, that includes a display (13, 14, 15) of two-dimensional images in conjunction with three-dimensional virtual objects (17), which are displayed with respect to each other in a clear and easily understandable ...