ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,048, issued on March 31, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"System and method for creating anchors in augmented or mixed reality" was invented by Kishore Mulchandani (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Swaroop Kalasapur (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for creating anchors that are resilient to changes in a dynamic environment includes capturing a first dataset of an environment with a sensor of a system at a first time. The method may also include identifying a plurality of features in the first dataset. The method may also include generating a hierarchy of the features based upon th...