ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,138, issued on July 8, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for utilizing augmented reality and voice commands to capture and display product information" was invented by Chaitanya Kumar Behara (Andhra Pradesh, India), Saurava Singh (Hyderabad, India), Gopal K. Mandava (Centerville, Va.), Jyoti Kumari (Patna, India), Pankaj Rai (Mania Mirzabad, India), Sudhindra K. Kumar (Chennai, India), Manu Bhatia (Hyderabad, India), Abhishek Malhotra (Hyderabad, India) and Sundaresan Gnanasekaran (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device may receive, from a server device...