ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,006, issued on June 3, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Augmented reality enhancement of moving images" was invented by Evan M. Goldberg (Burbank, Calif.), Alexandra Christiansen (Van Nuys, Calif.), Jackson Aaron Rogow (Los Angeles) and Nicholas Maggio (Pittsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media enhancement system includes an augmented reality (AR) device having a display, processing hardware, and a memory storing software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to monitor media content including a sequence of moving images displayed on a display screen separate from the AR devic...