ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,351, issued on July 1.

"Registration of virtual object association rights for augmented reality environment" was invented by Randy Alan Andrews (West Linn, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for registration of rights for hosting virtual objects over a property in augmented reality environment in an augmented reality registration service system. The augmented reality registration service system provides a user interface to enable a property owner to place a request for registration of rights for associating virtual objects in augmented reality environment over a property selected from maps presented through the user interfac...