ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,885, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Augmented reality devices for safety alerting" was invented by Alyssa N. Scarbrough (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums which utilize augmented reality devices to detect and warn vulnerable individuals about real-life situations that could pose a hazard to their safety. One or more signals identified from data captured by sensors of one or more devices of the user may be analyzed to determine whether elements such as persons, objects, or the like pose a danger to the us...