ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,111, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Intelligent container configuring using augmented reality" was invented by Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Abhishek Jain (Baraut, India) and Sowjanya Rao (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality (AR) container orchestration system includes computer hardware including an AR system and a container orchestration platform. The AR system is configured to perform identifying a container to be deployed, displaying, to a user, a grid having a plurality of cells e...