ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,888, issued on June 24, was assigned to PHOTON INSIGHTS INC. (West Conshohocken, Pa.).

"Unified insights engine" was invented by Arnab Manna (Kolkota, India) and Hari Ravi (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed herein relate generally to providing a media abstract for a selected topic. The media abstract may include information obtained from a plurality of media sources. Providing the media abstract may include periodically retrieving data from a plurality of media sources, saving the data in a data store, retrieving the data from the data store, generating for each topic of a plurality of to...