ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,472, issued on June 24, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for managing network devices using augmented reality" was invented by Warren Keith Edwards (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for controlling network devices in an augmented reality environment. A user may point a second network device at a first network device to determine a network activity the first network device. The second network device may display a user control interface to enable the user to control the network activity of the first network device (e.g., a pinch gesture control). I...