ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,324, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HCL Technologies Ltd. (New Delhi).

"Method and system for guiding people to desired locations within an environment" was invented by Deep Arora (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for guiding a user to desired locations within an environment is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving data corresponding to the environment from a machine-readable mark in response to scanning the machine-readable mark. The data corresponding to the environment includes geographical information associated with the environment. The method further includes receiving a user...