ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,952, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Shared real-time content editing activated by an image" was invented by Patrick Soon-Shiong (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for instantiating collaboration interfaces via object recognition are disclosed. An object recognition engine communicatively coupled to a database and an electronic device receives sensor data related to an object and identifies an object characteristic. A component is selected having criteria satisfied by the object characteristic and a collaboration interface is instantiated on the electronic d...