ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,936, issued on May 13, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for censorship cues removal and media reconstruction" was invented by Jean-Yves Couleaud (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed herein for reconstructing censored media to an uncensored form using techniques such as content recognition, contextual analysis, facial analysis, voice fingerprinting, and voice reproduction, at the server level within a provider/server/client ecosystem, or at the client level. Specifically, a server or client receives a m...