US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Augmented reality-based task management" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,032, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Augmented reality-based task management" was invented by Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.), Atul Mene (Morrisville, N.C.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to improve the management and execution of a task, embodiments receive, by a computing device, the task, divide the task into a plurality of steps, and assign the plurality of steps to an end user and a robotic system. Further, embodiments identify a sequence of predetermined or anticipated motions tha...