ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,597, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus for providing augmented reality and method of providing augmented reality using the same" was invented by Tae Hee Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Min Woo Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for providing augmented reality (AR) includes a support frame supporting at least one transparent lens, at least one display module for displaying AR content through the at least one transparent lens, a sensing module for detecting image data from a forward direction of the support frame, and for sensing sign...