ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,380, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Little Falls, N.J.).

"Relative movement tracking with augmented reality" was invented by Ralf Josef Jaeger (Basel, Switzerland) and Xing Chen (Basel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and computer-implemented methods for tracking movement of a subject comprise and perform the steps of: Obtaining depth image data of a subject's body during a predefined time period and tracking locations of a plurality of anatomical landmarks of the body based on the depth image data. In addition, a location of a predefined point is tracked in an environment, in which the su...