ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,402, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Multi-modal sensor based process tracking and guidance" was invented by Harpreet Singh Sawhney (Kirkland, Wash.) and Bugra Tekin (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are disclosed that relate to computer-based tracking of a process performed by a user. In one example, multi-modal sensor information is received via a plurality of sensors. A world state of a real-world physical environment and a user state in the real-world physical environment are tracked based on the multi-modal sensor information. A process being performed by the...