US Patent Issued to Apple on June 16 for "Techniques for providing a digital keychain for physical objects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,162, issued on June 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for providing a digital keychain for physical objects" was invented by Brad K. Herman (Culver City, Calif.) and Shiraz Akmal (Playa Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This relates generally to intelligent automated assistants and, more specifically, to provide a digital keychain for physical objects. An example method includes receiving a user request and in response to receiving the user request, scanning one or more objects within a real-world environment using a real-time capturing device associated with the electronic device in response ...