ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,308, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Jackpocket LLC (New York).

"Systems and methods for automated interaction with a touch-screen device" was invented by Eric Parker (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Peter J. Sullivan (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Elias Bachaalany (Jbeil, Lebanon), Imad Maalouf (Beirut), James Mansour (Austin, Texas) and Redza Shah (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automated interaction with a touch-screen device are described. A system for automated interaction with a touch-screen device may include at least one optical sensor configured to sense at least a first portion of a touch-screen of the t...