ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,385, issued on June 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated identification of labels for videos with a labeling service within a service provider network" was invented by Alex Williams (Johnson City, Tenn.), Weifeng Chen (Redmond, Wash.), Patrick Guy Haffner (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.), Matthew Alan Lease (Austin, Texas), Li Erran Li (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Kumar Hemachandra Chellapilla (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes automatically identifying videos of a video dataset having high-content similarity and grouping the videos together with one or more possible tags ...