US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 9 for "Managing a risk-free walkway using augmented reality" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,022, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Managing a risk-free walkway using augmented reality" was invented by Sudhanshu Sekher Sar (Bangalore, India), Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Satyam Jakkula (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described with respect to a system, method, and computer product for managing a risk-free walkway. An associated method includes defining a virtual space in augmented reality and determining a geofence between at least a contaminated area and the risk-free walkway that avoids ...