ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,089, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Augmented reality vehicle search assistance" was invented by Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney, Texas), Qiaochu Tang (Frisco, Texas), Micah Price (The Colony, Texas), Avid Ghamsari (Carrollton, Texas) and Jason Hoover (Grapevine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein may allow for auto-locating a user in a parking lot and/or automatically directing a user to recommended inventory. For example, a customer may capture an image of a vehicle, or a marker associated with a vehicle, in a parking lot. The image may be processed locally or at a s...