US Patent Issued to GLOBAL PUBLISHING INTERACTIVE on Sept. 1 for "Method and systems for dynamically featuring items within the storyline context of a graphic narrative" (Florida, Illinois, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,329, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GLOBAL PUBLISHING INTERACTIVE INC. (Troy, Ohio).

"Method and systems for dynamically featuring items within the storyline context of a graphic narrative" was invented by Robert Hoffer (Miami Beach, Fla.), Christopher Carter (Bloomingdale, Ill.) and Shaun Rowan (Troy, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for modifying a graphic narrative to feature select products/services. Panels of the graphic narrative are segmented into elements (e.g., using semantic segmentation models like Fully Convolutional Networks), which are then identified as backgrounds, foregrounds, ...