ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,665, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to StoryForge LLC (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Digital story generation" was invented by Eric Dennis Howell (St. Paul, Minn.) and Wiliam Daniel Schultz (Plymouth, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital story includes textual, visual, and/or audio aspects. Generation of a new digital story and/or editing of an existing digital story can include, for instance, coordinating presentation of textual, visual, and/or audio aspects of the digital story. A digital story can be viewed and/or accessed by a user remote from one or more authors of the digital story."
The patent was filed on Aug. 4, 2022, under A...