ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,626, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS SAS (Paris).
"Augmented Reality method and system enabling commands to control real-world devices" was invented by Anthony Laurent (Vignoc, France), Vincent Alleaume (Pace, France), Caroline Baillard (Saint Sulpice la Foret, France), Matthieu Fradet (Chanteloup, France) and Pierrick Jouet (Rennes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera captures part of a surrounding scene to obtain a user view, disambiguating information uniquely identifying at least one controllable device or group of controllable devices in a set of controllable devices of a given type ...