ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,664, issued on May 5, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Location-based object identification and data visualization" was invented by Devin Bhushan (San Jose, Calif.), Jesse Chor (Saratoga, Calif.) and Glen Wong (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device is fitted with a receiver, a location sensor, and optionally a camera. The mobile device may be further fitted with a data visualization software application program, which may include extended reality (XR) functionality, executing on a processor within a system. Via the data visualization software application program, various techniques...