US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on July 14 for "Near-field communication overlay" (Brazilian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,323, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Near-field communication overlay" was invented by Matheus Eichelberger (Porto Alegre, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a device, method, and storage medium. The device receives an image and identifies a computing device in the image. The device retrieves a reference diagram of the computing device and overlays a icon over a portion of the computing device in the image corresponding to a location of a near-field communication antenna."

The patent was filed on Ju...