US Patent Issued to International Business Machines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 24 for "Cognitive placement of captioned text" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,551, issued on June 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Cognitive placement of captioned text" was invented by Juan Carlos Pinzon Estupinan (Sacramento, Calif.), Ashutosh Vishwas Mate (San Jose, Calif.), Vinayak Harnoor (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Evelyn Bahiyyih Pirnia (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide a computer system that includes a processor communicatively coupled to a memory. The processor is operable to perform processor operations that include accessing video information having...