ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,287, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Photonon Inc. (Tokyo).

"Object exchange assistant system" was invented by Takeshi Yogi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods facilitate an automatic object exchange between users. The process comprises receiving an exchange condition from another user's computing device after a user's exchange condition has already been received. Once a matching process identifies the user's object as a potential exchange object, the another user's computing device displays that object and allows it to be selected as an exchange destination object in an exchange. The execution of an exchange p...