ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,237, issued on July 22, was assigned to Gracenote Media Services LLC (New York).

"Facilitating video search" was invented by Edwin Seng Eng Ong (San Francisco) and Aleksandra R. Vikati (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for facilitating video search are disclosed. An example apparatus includes one or more processors to execute instructions to process first metadata associated with video to identify the video as corresponding to an episode of a television show, the video made available by a first device. The example one or more processors are to update a database to include first information concerning...