US Patent Issued to Google on Nov. 11 for "Methods, systems, and media for causing an alert to be presented" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,774, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and media for causing an alert to be presented" was invented by Dean Kenneth Jackson (Pittsburgh) and Daniel Victor Klein (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for customizing video include providing a portion of video to an electronic display and identifying a character or personality in the portion of video. A request to perform an action regarding the portion of video may be detected and the action may be associated with the identified character or personality. The action may be performed on a second portion of v...