ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,981, issued on March 31, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Media capture device command triggering systems and methods" was invented by Patrick Soon-Shiong (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of delegating media capturing functionality from one device to another are presented. A first device configured with an object recognition engine captures a media representation of an environment and identifies an object within that environment. Then based on matched object traits from a database, the engine selects a delegation rules set, and delegates certain media capturing functionality...