ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,882, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TAP Technologies SA (Switzerland).

"Displaying items relevant to a video" was invented by Valery Ushakov (Geneva), Andrey Tatarinov (Geneva), Aleksandr Kozlov (Geneva) and Anna Zakutniaia (Geneva).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are suitable for product placement. The system having a user device including a touch-sensitive screen, a camera for capturing video, and a wireless telecommunication module. The mobile device configured present to the user, via the touch-sensitive screen, a live video feed of the view of the camera, receive from the user, input selections to initiate ...