ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,612, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).
"Method and apparatus for interacting with content through overlays on a mobile device" was invented by Stephanie Suk Hing Chan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Johnny Key Jye Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sharing an image with one or more overlays on a mobile platform includes the steps of receiving an image; adding an overlay to the receive image, the overlay being a generated content conveying an impression when viewing the received image; recognizing by matching the overlay to a set of templates for ...