ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,482, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Displaying avatars on an augmented reality (AR) lens in response to receiving a communication notification" was invented by Reji Jose (Bangalore, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Raghuveer Prasad Nagar (Kota, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes displaying an avatar associated with a second user on an augmented reality (AR) lens of a first communication device, in response to receiving, on the first communication device worn by a first user, a notification from...