ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,811, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Multiparty object recognition" was invented by Bing Song (La Canada, Calif.), John Wiacek (Culver City, Calif.), David McKinnon (Culver City, Calif.) and Matheen Siddiqui (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiparty object recognition systems and methods are disclosed. A method of interactively manipulating virtual object data, wherein an object database is configured to store first party object data that corresponds to a first real-world object and is further configured to store second party object data that corresponds to a second r...