ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,994, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Augmented reality optimal virtual assistance" was invented by Beth Karos (Valencia, Pa.) and Kelley Anders (East New Market, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described with respect to a system, method, and computer program product for visualizing optimal augmented reality (AR) assistance. An associated method includes receiving a plurality of object data of at least one object associated with a user; generating an optimal assistance model based on analysis of the plurality of object data; predicting a plurality of object ...