ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,296, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Environment augmentation based on individualized knowledge graphs" was invented by Stefan Ravizza (Wallisellen, Switzerland), Matthias Biniok (Marburg, Germany), Frederik Frank Flother (Schlieren, Switzerland), Patrick Lustenberger (Herrliberg, Switzerland), David Ocheltree (Peachtree City, Ga.) and Saurabh Yadav (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach, a processor creates a multi-layered knowledge graph (KG), wherein a first layer is a core KG, a second layer has application-specific structured facts, and a third la...