ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,402, issued on March 31, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Augmented reality collaboration system with annotation capability" was invented by Alexander Tyurin (San Mateo, Calif.) and Gerald V. Wright Jr. (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, one aspect disclosed features a system comprising: a first user device configured to display virtual content, the first user device comprising one or more displays; one or more hardware processors; and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by the one or more hardware processors to: generate a first image depicting ...