ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,938, issued on July 22, was assigned to University College Dublin, National University of Ireland (Ireland).

"Method for coherent, unsupervised, transcript-based, extractive summarisation of long videos of spoken content" was invented by Ricardo Simon Carbajo (Dublin), Sean Mahon (Dublin) and Hanene Jemoui (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a video summarisation method that includes converting an input video file to a video transcript using speech recognition, segmenting the video transcript into a plurality of paragraphs using a transformer based model, performing relevance ranking of the plurality of paragraphs by ...