ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,465, issued on July 15, was assigned to DoubleMe Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Automated recognition, registration, and tracking of user items and intelligent machine valuation of user items based on peer interests in an augmented-reality or mixed-reality environment" was invented by Heekwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel electronic system provides automated recognition, registration, and location tracking of physical, holographic, and/or virtual user items that can be visualized in a computer graphics-infused augmented-reality or mixed-reality environment with an electronic visualization device. The nov...