ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,250, issued on April 29, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).
"Systems and methods of sharing an augmented environment with a companion" was invented by Karen Nickerson (Chicago), Justin Wishne (Chicago), Drew Jacobs (Arlington, Va.), Justin Smith (Chicago), Marco S. Giampaolo (Berwyn, Ill.) and Hannes Jouhikainen (Arlington, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method for providing an interactive virtual environment. The system may receive environmental data, and a...