ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,154, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for region-based presentation of augmented content" was invented by Simon P. DiMaio (San Carlos, Calif.), Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.), Terrence B. McKenna III (San Francisco) and Govinda Payyavula (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A region-based augmentation system is configured to determine that a viewpoint of a user of a display device is directed within an anchor region of a physical world containing the user. In response, the system directs the display device to present augmented content ...