ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,732, issued on May 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods for handling occlusion in augmented reality applications using memory and device tracking and related apparatus" was invented by Diego Gonzalez Morin (Galapagar, Spain), Simona Gugliermo (Stockholm), Jose Araujo (Stockholm), AmirHossein Taher Kouhestani (Solna, Sweden), Ioannis Karagiannis (Kalamata, Greece) and Ananya Muddukrishna (Enskededalen, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a device for occlusion handling in augmented reality is provided. The device can generate at least one pixel classification image in...