US Patent Issued to Georgia State University Research Foundation on Nov. 11 for "Intelligent automated content summary generation" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,784, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. (Atlanta).

"Intelligent automated content summary generation" was invented by Anthony Lemieux (Decatur, Ga.) and Krishanu Sarker (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content summarizing program processes audio and/or visual content of a media item to determine a plurality of segments of the content; and determines a respective ranking for each of the plurality of segments. The respective ranking indicates how representative of the content as a whole the segment is. Based on the plurality of respective rankings and summary time criteri...