ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,385, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for augmenting visual content" was invented by Christopher Franklin (Drexel Hill, Pa.), Jennifer L. Holloway (Wallingford, Pa.), Daniel P. Rowan (Springfield, Pa.) and Nathalia S. Santos-Sheehan (Royersford, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for augmenting visual content with a sponsored object instead of a selected object. An illustrative method receives an input selecting an object for augmenting visual content, determines whether a property of the selected object matches a property of a sponsored ob...