ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,111, issued on March 4, was assigned to PATREON INC. (San Francisco).
"Augmented reality identification of subscribers" was invented by Timothy Wood (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for identifying subscribers and/or content creators to each other while attending a real-world/live event. The real-world/live event may be in furtherance of content creation or in furtherance of providing preferential access to subscribers. Identification in the case of subscribers can be based upon subscribership information, commonality of one or more aspects of the subscribers and/or the content creators. ...