ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,834, issued on May 19, was assigned to Sarcos Corp. (Salt Lake City).

"Augmented reality system and method for conveying to a human operator information associated with human-imperceptible indicia within an operating environment of a robot" was invented by Fraser M. Smith (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system comprising a robot, and human-imperceptible indicia associated with an object within an environment, the human-imperceptible indicia comprising or linking to interaction information pertaining to a predetermined intended interaction of the robot with the object, the interaction information facilitating i...