ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,466, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Personalized and curated transcription of auditory experiences to improve user engagement" was invented by Antje Ihlefeld (Redmond, Wash.), Alexander Reich (Seattle) and Morteza Khaleghimeybodi (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for developing a curated transcription of an acoustic experience containing spoken words. The technique includes computing a first metric for a word based on biomarkers associated with the user, where the metric indicates an attentional state...