ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,229, issued on April 29, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems and methods for curating content metadata" was invented by Pritesh Patel (Hatfield, Pa.) and Robert Dandrea (Newtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems relating to generating and correlating metadata with a content item are disclosed. For example, a computing device may generate one or more timestamp indicators to be associated with a content item. Each timestamp indicator may be correlated to metadata and may be associated with a time point or time interval in a duration of the content item. A requesting device may ...