US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 18 for "Closed caption content generation" (North Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,120, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Closed caption content generation" was invented by Charles Steven Lingafelt (Durham, N.C.), Gina Renee Howard (Hillsborough, N.C.), John E. Moore Jr. (Pflugerville, Texas) and Andrew R. Jones (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a memory and a processor in communication therewith configured to perform operations. The operations may include receiving an audio file and a text file related to the audio file, analyzing the audio file to produce an analysis, and determining a portion of the audio file is simil...