ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,414, issued on June 16, was assigned to YELLOW MULTIMEDIA Corp. (Florence, Ky.).
"Methods and systems for fusing locked user generated content in a book having pages interspersed with optically readable codes" was invented by Latonya Smith (Florence, Ky.) and Pierre Brown (Florence, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generating content for a story in a book having pages interspersed with optically readable codes and intermission optically readable codes. To consume an entire story, a person reads text on pages in some book sections and uses an optical scanning device to scan optically readable codes on pages i...