ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,270, issued on June 23, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods of lift to find augmented reality guidance" was invented by Navin Naidu (Dublin, Calif.), Shankara Bhargava (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Deepa Mohan (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, systems and methods for augmented reality guidance are disclosed. A first position of a local device and a second position of a first item within a predetermined locale are determined. Route data from the first position to the second position is generated and a position of the local device is tracked. In response to th...