ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,499, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Home toy magic wand management platform interacting with toy magic wands of visitors" was invented by Alejandro Kauffmann (San Francisco) and Dev Bhargava (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to facilitating the pairing of a visitor interactive object. An example method includes receiving, by a first interactive object from one or more sensors, data indicative of a visitor interactive object identifier associated with the visitor interactive object. The method includes generating, by the first interactive object, a...