ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,250, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL Inc. (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Provoking movement of computing devices with augmented reality features" was invented by Victor Palmer (Denver) and Angel Ai Jun Lam (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed with associated techniques for ensuring that structures are fully imaged, which may permit individuals to utilize mobile computing devices to record imagery of structures for the purpose of documenting their presence, size, location, and the like. As digital images are captured by a computing device, those digital images may be presented ...