ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,804, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Augmented reality based aiming of light fixtures" was invented by Tyler Brian Morris (Liverpool, N.Y.), Walten Peter Owens (Manlius, N.Y.), Nam Chin Cho (Peachtree City, Ga.) and George Albert Dederich (Syracuse, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality (AR) device includes a camera unit, a display unit, and an AR unit. The AR unit is configured to obtain a rendered image of an area. The rendered image includes a virtual marker indicating a virtual target location in the rendered image, the virtual target location corresponding to ...