ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,584, issued on June 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automatic generation of events using a machine-learning model" was invented by Kristina Bohl (Boulder, Colombia), Joe Agajanian (Los Angeles), Lily Berg (Los Angeles), Brian Potetz (Irvine, Calif.), Keegan Mosley (Los Angeles) and Shinko Cheng (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media application segments a library of media associated with a user account into episodes, wherein each episode is associated with a corresponding time period. The media application generates, using an event machine-learning model, an event signal that indicates ...