US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on April 8 for "Methods and systems for synchronization of closed captions with content output" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,582, issued on April 8, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for synchronization of closed captions with content output" was invented by Christopher Stone (Newtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Alignment between closed caption and audio/video content may be improved by determining text associated with a portion of the audio or a portion of the video and comparing the determined text to a portion of closed caption text. Based on the comparison, a delay may be determined and the audio/video content may be buffered based on the determined delay."

The patent was filed on Sept. 6, 20...