ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,993, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Deploying virtual assistance in augmented reality environments" was invented by Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Ballary Javid Hussain (Anantapur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described with respect to a system, method, and computer product for generating virtual assistance. An associated method includes generating virtual assistance includes receiving a plurality of sensor data associated with a surveillance system; generating a virtual environment based ...