ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,822, issued on April 29, was assigned to EmergeX LLC (Cumberland, Md.).

"Methods and systems for generating interactive composite media assets comprising common objects" was invented by Michael Joseph Karlin (Bethesda, Md.) and Roy Feinson (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed herein to address the problems discussed above and in particular to provide coordination for uncoordinated content. Beyond simply archiving and/or organizing available content, the methods and systems generate composite media assets that provide enriched details and supplemental data that extends beyond any given source con...