ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,851, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Augmented reality enhanced media" was invented by David Durnil (Carlsbad, Calif.), Todd Lemoine (San Diego) and Murali Mantravadi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for displaying augmented reality enhanced media content are disclosed. For instance, a process can include displaying media content on one or more displays. The process can include: generating a first media content element for an application engine associated with an application state of the application engine; generating a second media content element for the application eng...