ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,578, issued on March 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Device integration in augmented reality environment" was invented by Alain Dessureaux (Orange, Calif.), Farah Lynn Houston (Seattle), Jason W. Bay (Bellevue, Wash.), David Chiapperino (Seattle), J. C. Connors (Redmond, Wash.), Paul Andrew Larpenteur (Bothell, Wash.) and Johannes Seifert (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for device integration in augmented reality environments are disclosed. For example, prior to an AR session being initiated, smart devices within a physical environment where the AR session is to be utilized...