ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,976, issued on April 22, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatically enhancing content items through identifying relationships" was invented by Anna Tatunashvili (Bratislava, Slovak Republic), George Thayyil Jacob Sushil (Bangalore, India), Rupam Bhattacharjee (Karimganj, India) and Siba Prasad Satapathy (Horamavu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are techniques for automatically enhancing content items through identifying relationships. One or more content items and an associated transcript for each of the one or more content items are received. One or more terms are identified in...