ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,516, issued on April 8, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for associating input schemes with physical world objects" was invented by Edison Lin (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for a media guidance application that allows users to associate input schemes with physical objects in an augmented reality environment. Specifically, the media guidance application may recognize physical objects in an augmented reality environment and allow users to identify input schemes to associate with the physical objects, wherein the input schemes are way...