ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,597, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for augmented reality video generation" was invented by Warren Keith Edwards (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for generating an AR image are described herein. A physical camera is used to capture a video of a physical object in front of a physical background. The system then accesses data defining a virtual environment and selects a first position of a virtual camera in the virtual environment. While capturing the video, the system displays captured video of the physical object, such that the p...