ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,326, issued on May 20, was assigned to RESI MEDIA LLC (Allen, Texas).

"Interactive region based on optically readable code" was invented by Bradley Reitmeyer (Allen, Texas), Robert Bertram (Pendleton, Ind.), Christopher Joel Ribble (Garland, Texas) and Pete Swulius (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video server machine initiates an analysis of a video stream to be provided to a player device, and the initiated analysis may be configured to detect an optically readable code appearing within the video stream. The video server machine initiates provision of the video stream to the player device during or after the analysis that i...