ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,196, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"AI-based video summary generation for content consumption" was invented by Shubham Goyal (Calgary, Canada), Ron Mondri (Seattle), Itai Almog (Redmond, Wash.), Dhruv Kochhar (Ottawa), Jairo Medina Garcia (Redmond, Wash.) and Erez Kikin Gil (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements receiving content and a call requesting a generative model to generate a video summary of the content; constructing a prompt including the content and instructions to the model to identify semantic context of the content, to...