ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,493, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to STATS LLC (Chicago).

"Machine learning for recognizing and interpreting embedded information card content" was invented by Mihailo Stojancic (San Jose, Calif.) and Warren Packard (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metadata for highlights of a video stream is extracted from card images embedded in the video stream. The highlights may be segments of a video stream, such as a broadcast of a sporting event, that are of particular interest to one or more users. Card images embedded in video frames of the video stream are identified and processed to extract text. The text characters ma...