US Patent Issued to Distance Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Managing graphical elements in augmented reality" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,349, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Distance Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Managing graphical elements in augmented reality" was invented by Joona Petrell (Tampere, Finland) and Mikko Strandborg (Hangonkyla, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining information indicative of a relative location of each eye of at least one user with respect to an image plane of an augmented-reality display, generating or retrieving at least one image to be displayed based on the obtained information, identifying a plurality of graphical elements to be presented by the at least one image, detecting a potential overlap betwe...