US Patent Issued on Dec. 9 for "Wed that display a virtual image for a telephone call" (Puerto Rico, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,112, issued on Dec. 9.

"Wed that display a virtual image for a telephone call" was invented by Philip Scott Lyren (Rincon, Puerto Rico) and Glen A. Norris (Lakewood, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable electronic device (WED) worn on a head of a first user captures video of an environment. The WED displays, before the first user answers a telephone call from a second user, the video of the environment that includes a virtual image of the second user in the environment where a voice of the second user will externally localize as binaural sound when the first user answers the telephone call."

The patent was filed on Oct. 5, ...