ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,661, issued on June 17, was assigned to Jadu AR Inc. (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.).

"Contextual control of digital files built on the blockchain and projected in augmented reality" was invented by Asad J. Malik (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.), Jack Gerrard (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.) and Jake Sally (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a process including: identifying, with a computing system, a blockchain-based token mapped to an asset configured to be presented in an augmented reality application; obtaining, with the computing system, contextual information indicative of a physical context of a...