ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,553, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Subtitle rendering based on the reading pace" was invented by Padmassri Chandrashekar (Karnataka, India), Daina Emmanuel (Bangalore, India) and Reda Harb (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for summarizing captions, configuring playback speed, and rewriting the caption file for a media asset are disclosed. The system determines whether to display the original captions or a summarized version of the captions, which are based on user's language proficiency level, reading pace, and historical data, and can be generated either o...