ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,745, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated video summary generation using textual quotes" was invented by Deep Dubey (Bellevue, Wash.), Sushanta Das (Kirkland, Wash.), Kenneth Benoit (Ravensdale, Wash.), Anup Gandotra (Shoreline, Wash.), Adam Fluckey (Shoreline, Wash.) and Nikhil Kajale (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods for automated video summary generation using textual quotes. Example methods may include determining first text representing a phrase spoken in video content, determining that ...