ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,699, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to WowYow Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and apparatus for media search, characterization, and augmented reality provision" was invented by Adam Boskovich (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for providing attribute-based search of media assets such as video and audio assets, and associated augmented reality functions including dynamic provision of relevant secondary content relating to the identified attribute(s). In one embodiment, media or content assets are ingested into a processing system and processed according to one or more attribute detection, identification, and...