US Patent Issued on July 21 for "Universally interactive request for information" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,228, issued on July 21.

"Universally interactive request for information" was invented by David Downey (Sherman, Conn.), Patrick M. Sheehan (Jamison, Pa.), Bruce J. Anderson (Chesterfield, N.J.) and Daniel C. Wilson (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request for information (RFI) system is provided for use in communications networks including broadcast networks and the Internet. In one implementation, a code identifying an item of media content of interest (e.g. television, newspaper, magazines, billboards, radio) is captured and input to an RFI system that includes stored media tags and a search tool for matching inpu...