ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,094, issued on March 25, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Using text data in content presentation and content search" was invented by Jamie Batmanglidj (Denver), Neill Kipp (Centennial, Colo.), Justin Riggert (Centennial, Colo.) and Joseph Kiok (Arcadia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for using text data in content presentation and content search are disclosed. Text data and a plurality of video frames can be extracted from a content program and stored in a database. Extracted text data can be divided into a plurality of text segments. The plurality of text segments and the...