ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,813, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating virtual objects from embedded code" was invented by Alexa Fay Siu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tong Sun (San Ramon, Calif.), Mustafa Doga Dogan (Cambridge, Mass.), Jennifer Anne Healey (San Jose, Calif.) and Curtis Michael Wigington (Annandale, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In implementation of techniques for generating virtual objects from embedded code, a computing device implements an embedded code system to detect an embedded code included in a physical object depicted in a frame of a digital video displayed in a user interface. The physical object ...