ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,116, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Media item and product pairing" was invented by Jeewoong Eric Lee (Long Island City, N.Y.), Lukas Georg Eiermann (San Francisco) and Raymond Manuel Vazquez (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes presenting a user interface (UI) including one or more graphical representations of one or more videos. Each graphical representation of a respective video is selectable to initiate playback of the respective video. A graphical representation is displayed with a UI element in a collapsed state. The UI element includes information identifying a ...