ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,654, issued on April 15, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for pinning content items to locations in an augmented reality display based on user preferences" was invented by Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.) and Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A number of zones are defined within a location, each zone corresponding to a different physical area within the location. A weighting factor is then assigned to each zone. A number of content items are identified for display in the AR display based on user preferences. Using the weighting factors and content item priority data...