ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,994, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Generating description pages for media entities" was invented by Christian Garcia Siagian (Los Angeles), Vedant Ulhas Shete (Milpitas, Calif.), Timothy William Stephani (Emeryville, Calif.), Jobel Kyle Petallana Vecino (Los Angeles) and Gordon Zheng (North Hollywood, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pages describing episodes of podcasts or other media entities are constructed by interpreting content of the media entities. A transcript of an episode is determined by one or more natural language understanding techniques and divided into chapters. For each o...