ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,776, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Mixed reality scenario generation for cross-industry training" was invented by Mary A Mt. Pleasant (Tyngsboro, Mass.), Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to mixed reality scenario generation for cross industry training, a computer receives data associated with tasks performed by a user. A computer identifies an activity in a first industry associated with the tasks. A computer determines that one or more activities associa...