ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,922, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Automated content analysis and annotation" was invented by Miquel Angel Farre Guiu (Bern, Switzerland), Monica Alfaro Vendrell (Barcelona, Spain), Marc Junyet Martin (Barcelona, Spain), Francesc Josep Guitart Bravo (Lleida, Spain), Albert Aparicio Isarn (Barcelona, Spain), Pablo Pernias (Sant Joan d'Alacant, Spain), Steven S. Shapiro (Pasadena, Calif.) and Anthony M. Accardo (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a computing platform having processing hardware, and a systems memory storing a software code. The processing hardwar...