ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,139, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Time marking chapters in media items at a platform using machine-learning" was invented by Chenjie Gu (Mountan View, Calif.), Wei-Hong Chuang (Mountain View, Calif.), Min-Hsuan Tsai (San Jose, Calif.), Jianfeng Yang (Mountain View, Calif.), Ji Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.), Honglu Zhou (Highland Park, N.J.) and Hassan Akbari (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for time marking of media items at a platform using machine-learning are provided herein. An indication of a identified media item is provided as input to a machine-learning mode...