ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,663, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Apparatus and methods for a large language model with semantic audio for targeted advertising video stream" was invented by Yassine Maalej (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selecting and inserting contextually relevant advertisements into a video stream, executed by a processing system in a network server computing device, encompasses receiving a primary video stream with potential advertisement insertion points indicated by SCTE35/SCTE104 markers, extracting an audio segment from this stream before an advertisement bre...