US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on April 22 for "Remote assistance using augmented reality" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,003, issued on April 22, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Remote assistance using augmented reality" was invented by Abdulrahman Althobaiti (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Fadl Abdellatif (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Sahejad Patel (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: receiving a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) models of a plurality of assembly parts of a physical object; displaying, on a display device and over a live video of the plurality of assembly parts, an augmented reality (AR) overlay including...