US Patent Issued to WHATNOT on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for obtaining automated images in a live video event" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,493, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to WHATNOT INC. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for obtaining automated images in a live video event" was invented by Alex Chase (Venice, Calif.) and Benjamin L. Brodie (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for implementing improvements to "live events," via which a host of the event may offer one or more items to one or more guests in the event (e.g., via auction, via direct purchase, and/or via giveaway). In particular, the host device may automatically capture and/or upload one or more images of the item(s) to one or more servers for processing. The one or more s...