ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,764, issued on April 15, was assigned to Transfermedia Production Services GMBH (Potsdam, Germany).

"Method, device, computer program, and computer program product for analyzing data sets of action objects in audio and/or visual media contents" was invented by Mark F. Gulbahar (Landshut, Germany) and Claudia Wolf (Nuthetal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The aim of the invention is to analyze and evaluate a data set of action objects which arise in audio and/or visual media contents. The action objects are visual and/or audible objects or elements in an audio and/or visual media content which can be perceived by a viewer and/o...