ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,059, issued on April 1.
"Generated offering exposure" was invented by Oded Melinek (Kiryat-Ono, Israel) and Maier Fenster (Petach-Tikva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reality augmentation, including: (a) determining the identity of a container, for example chocolate spread, with a top opening; (b) acquiring an image of the container from a top thereof; (c) estimating a geometry of the filling of said container based on said identity and said image; and (d) overlaying an augmentation, for example, a coupon or a toy, on an image, based on said estimation."
The patent was filed on Oct. 20, 2022, under Application No...