ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,959, issued on May 13, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for generating interactive 360-degree content" was invented by Vikram Makam Gupta (Karnataka, India) and Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying certain objects within 360-degree content for user interaction. Objects within 360-degree content may be identified, and the corresponding segments of 360-degree content may be assigned a score according to how likely they may be to meet certain criteria, such as the likelihood that the user may interact with the o...