US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on July 1 for "Supporting an augmented-reality software application" (Swedish, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,037, issued on July 1, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Supporting an augmented-reality software application" was invented by Yu Wang (Solna, Sweden), Sandra Backstrom (Stockholm), Johan Haraldson (Stockholm), Jaeseong Jeong (Solna, Sweden) and Matthew John Lawrenson (Bussigny, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device for supporting an Augmented-Reality (AR) software application is provided. The computing device is operative to select a physical location for placing a current virtual object, where the current virtual object appears to be placed when overlaid onto a video sequenc...