ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,749, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Latham Pool Products Inc. (Latham, N.Y.).

"Augmented reality visualizer for swimming pools" was invented by Will Cappiello (Latham, N.Y.), Joel Culp (Latham, N.Y.), Scott Mocha (Latham, N.Y.) and Scott Reynolds (Latham, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality visualizer for swimming pools is described herein. In one example, a system can receive images of a target area for a swimming pool from a camera. The system can generate an augmented reality environment by analyzing the images. The augmented reality environment can include a virtual swimming pool overlaying at least one i...