ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,867, issued on July 29, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Asset unlocking using augmented reality" was invented by Ron G. Faris (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Jett House (New York City, N.Y.), Aaron L. Uhrmacher (New York City, N.Y.) and Michael B. Hailey (Forest Grove, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end-user computing device may utilize augmented reality to capture input from a target image. The end-user computing device may determine whether the target image contains target information. If so, an augmented reality program on the end-user computing device may present an indication that the end user has unlocked an asset. An i...