ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,154, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Generating and/or displaying synchronized captions" was invented by Ross Gilson (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described for correlating automatically-generated timing information from a first audio transcript with a second audio transcript (such as a transcript generated by one or more human transcribers) that may not have timing information. By correlating the second transcript with the timing information, an accurate and synchronized transcript may be generated. To correlate the second trans...