ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,009, issued on April 22, was assigned to PTC Inc. (Boston).
"Augmented reality system" was invented by Vladimir Parfenov (Hopkinton, Mass.), Kevin Elliott Jordan (Cape Elizabeth, Maine), Steven Thomas Dertien (Holliston, Mass.), Moshe Jacob Baum (Carlisle, Mass.), Andre Gosselin (Montreal), Stephen Prideaux-Ghee (Bristol, Great Britain) and James E. Heppelman (Needham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example augmented reality system includes: obtaining information about an instance of a device; recognizing the instance of the device based on the information; selecting a digital twin for the instance of the device, with the dig...