US Patent Issued to eBay on July 14 for "Multimodal content recognition and contextual advertising and content delivery" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,024, issued on July 14, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multimodal content recognition and contextual advertising and content delivery" was invented by Neelakantan Sundaresan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to providing supplemental content to one or more client devices requesting multimedia content. The supplemental content may be determined or selected based on the availability of one or more device channels, such as a display, speakers, or other component of the one or more client devices capable of providing an output. Furthermore, the supplemental content ma...