US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Method, system, and computer program product for selective augmented reality object replacement" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,071, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Method, system, and computer program product for selective augmented reality object replacement" was invented by Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Raghuveer Prasad Nagar (Kota, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approached is disclosed that selectively replaces physical objects with virtual objects viewable in augmented reality. Selective replacement is based on user location and corresponding preferences mapped to location clusters. AI systems learn user pref...