US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 5 for "Augmented reality overlay of digital model of debris location to detect environmental risks" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,661, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Augmented reality overlay of digital model of debris location to detect environmental risks" was invented by Fang Lu (Billerica, Mass.), Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital model is generated of a debris location where the digital model includes an augmented reality overlay of the debris location. Digital data from sensors at a debris field is received at a computer, and the digital data depicts debris in the debris field. Materia...