ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,902, issued on March 24, was assigned to Niantic Spatial Inc. (San Francisco).

"Compact head-mounted augmented reality system" was invented by Michael Miller (London), Maryam Sabour (Toronto), Austin Shan Drin Young (San Mateo, Calif.), Philip Antony Rutledge (Dallas), Uday Kishore Pasupuleti (Dublin, Calif.), Christopher Grant Stoski (San Rafael, Calif.), Dean Lester (Redmond, Wash.), Gadi Amit (San Mateo, Calif.), Quinn Jerome Odette Fitzgerald (San Francisco), Scott Timothy Alberstein (San Francisco) and Elliot Waugh Raderman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted device (HMD) may include a front portion, a ...