US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 28 for "Object modification in a smart environment" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,272, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Object modification in a smart environment" was invented by Jennifer M. Hatfield (San Francisco), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor may receive an object dataset based on an object. The processor may generate an interactive model of the object to display to a user using the object dataset. The processor may receive an interaction dataset associated with the user interacting with the interactive model. The processor may analy...