ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,381, issued on May 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Technology for augmented reality presentation and recommendations regarding proximate points of interest" was invented by Manjit Singh Sodhi (Bangalore, India), Raghuveer Prasad Nagar (Kota, India) and Jagadesh Ramaswamy Hulugundi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system implemented method for a user includes gathering, by a computer system, records of sources that each have no website and that the computer system, therefore, deems to be nondigital sources. The gathering includes the computer system receiving identi...