US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Feb. 17 for "Intuitive augmented reality collaboration on visual data" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,455, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Intuitive augmented reality collaboration on visual data" was invented by Michel Pahud (Kirkland, Wash.), Nathalie Riche (Issaquah, Wash.), Eyal Ofek (Redmond, Wash.) and Christophe Hurter (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Users can intuitively and non-obstructively obtain awareness of fellow collaborator views and/or statuses in an augmented reality environment. An interaction is detected between a first and second HMD. The detected interaction can cause the first HMD to request state information associated with the second HM...