ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,482, issued on April 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and media for identifying videos containing objectionable content" was invented by Bartlomiej Wolowiec (Zurich, Switzerland) and Andreea-Alexandra Ganciulescu (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for identifying videos containing objectionable content. An example method comprises identifying, by a computing system, a video uploaded to a video sharing service, generating an embedding for the video using a neural network, wherein the embedding specifies a location of the video in a multi-dimensional s...