ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,500, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Augmented reality-based unknown address communication" was invented by Adrianne Luu (Atlanta), Robert Moton Jr. (Alpharetta, Ga.), Ryan Schaub (Berkeley Lake, Ga.), Timothy Knezevich (Mentor, Ohio), Barrett Kreiner (Woodstock, Ga.), Wei Wang (Harrison, N.J.), Ari Craine (Marietta, Ga.) and Robert Koch (Peachtree Corners, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is directed towards facilitating communication with an unknown person via a device of the person having an unknown communications address. The presence of a visible person at...