US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Generation of associations between physical and virtual environments" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,054, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generation of associations between physical and virtual environments" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.) and Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments related to generation of associations between a physical environment and a digital environment are provided. A relationship feature-set is extracted for each of a first scene of the physical environment and a second scene of the digital environment. The relationship feat...