ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,214, issued on March 3, was assigned to LabLightAR Inc. (Seattle).
"Control structures for procedural guidance systems" was invented by Stacia R. Engel (Woodbridge, Calif.), William Peria (Shoreline, Wash.) and Roger Brent (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality system includes a knowledge base and an ontology. The knowledgebase includes properties of objects, substances, and materials found in work environments, and the ontology includes settings for permitted entities, objects and materials, and properties and relations including dependency relationships among them, such that the ontology encodes procedures car...