ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,051, issued on July 15, was assigned to SimpleC LLC (Marietta, Ga.).

"Systems and methods for locating media using a tag-based query" was invented by Douglas Nelson (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for locating assets using a tag-based query. A computer-implemented method for identifying relevant media assets may include the operations of associating metadata with stored media assets, receiving a query that includes one or more query expressions identifying at least a tag and an attribute for a set of desired media assets, and comparing the one or more query expressions with the metadata for ea...