ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,187, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Identifying camera accessories and optimizing a photo experience" was invented by Prisha Kukkal (San Diego), Marvin DeMerchant (San Diego), David Young (Poway, Calif.) and James R. Milne (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera application receives identifying information associated with a camera accessory for a camera. The camera application determines a unique identifier of the camera accessory based on the identifying information. The camera application provides the unique identifier of the camera accessory and a unique identifier of the camera to a machi...