ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,883, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Interactive content output" was invented by Mark Conrad Kockerbeck (Laguna Beach, Calif.), Srikanth Nori (Arlington, Mass.), Jilani Zeribi (Seattle), Ryan Summers (Tustin, Calif.) and Volkan Aginlar (Rancho Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for outputting interactive content and processing interactions with respect to the interactive content are described. While outputting requested content, a system may determine that interactive content is to be outputted. The system may determine output data including a first portion indicati...