ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,881, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Precise alignment of augmented reality objects with physical objects" was invented by Kiran Kumar H N (Bangalore, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Shailendra Moyal (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for precise alignment of one or more augmented reality objects is provided. The present invention may include identifying one or more physical objects in a physical environment that will be overlaid with the one or more AR objects; mon...