ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,196, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Augmented reality-based time adjustment" was invented by Chantal Guionnet (Chatillon Cedex, France) and Alexandre Audoin (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of temporal instantiation for an augmented-reality digital service. The method includes: a) obtaining an indication of a chosen date within a predefined time coverage interval, b) accessing a library of 3D temporal objects, a 3D temporal object comprising a plurality of instances, an instance being a 3D object associated with a validity time interval forming a continuous port...