ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,554, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Transcript aggregation for non-linear editors" was invented by Nikhil Kalra (San Jose, Calif.) and Nico Alexander Becherer (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer storage media are disclosed for transcript aggregation. In an example implementation, an audio mix processing map is generated representing an audio signal flow defined by a multi-track sequence that mixes audio sources arranged in audio tracks into a final mix. Using the audio mix processing map, an aggregated audio track is generated that represents which of the a...