ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,789, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sexton Arts LLC (Fairfax, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating videos from scripted readings" was invented by Michael John Sexton (Fairfax, Calif.), Margaret K. Hicks (Rohnert Park, Calif.) and Lawrence E. Garrigan (Fairfield, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for generating videos from a script read aloud by a user. The method includes: storing a questionnaire; presenting discrete prompts to the user via a user device; recording a user response to the discrete prompts; generating a video script based upon the user responses; recording a r...