US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Aug. 12 for "Context-aware tagging for augmented reality environments" (Brazilian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,865, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Context-aware tagging for augmented reality environments" was invented by Carlos H. Cardonha (Sao Paulo), Fernando L. Koch (Sao Paulo) and James R. Kraemer (Santa Fe, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tag-based search includes capturing an image, extracting a tag from the image, identifying a location associated with the captured image, and querying stored content for information that matches the location and the tag. Local storage is checked for the information first, and remote storage may be checked subsequently. Any located information may be ...