ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,928, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Visualizing real world sentiments of objects and interactions via augmented reality" was invented by Tiberiu Suto (Franklin, N.Y.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, 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 visualizing real world sentiments of an inanimate object. An associated method includes receiving sensor data from a plurality of sensors associated with the inanimate object, the sensor d...