ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,542, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Electronic devices using object recognition and/or voice recognition to provide personal and health assistance to users" was invented by Kenneth Luke Kocienda (Mill Valley, Calif.), Yanir Nulman (San Francisco), Lilynaz Hashemi (San Francisco), Imran A Chaudhri (San Francisco), Jane Koo (San Francisco), Adam Binsz (San Francisco), Eugene Bistolas (Mountain View, Calif.), George Kedenburg (San Francisco) and Jenna Arnost (Kamas, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example method, a wearable multimedia device is worn by a user. Further, ...