ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,253, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Contextual priority based multimedia modification" was invented by Sathya Santhar (Ramapuram, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Sridevi Kannan (Chennai, India) and Samuel Mathew Jawaharlal (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for multimedia modification is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes classifying one or more objects detected within a user's field of view through an augmented reality environment. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a context ...