ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,822, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).
"Context-based social agent interaction" was invented by Raymond J. Scanlon (Burbank, Calif.), Dawson Dill (Burbank, Calif.), Ashley N. Girdich (Glendale, Calif.), Robert P. Michel (Toluca Lake, Calif.), Komath Naveen Kumar (Los Angeles), John J. Wiseman (Los Angeles) and James R. Kennedy (Glendale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing context-based management of social agent interactions includes processing hardware and a memory storing a software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to detect the presence ...