ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,886, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Unknot Inc. (Parkland, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for searching audiovisual data using latent codes from generative networks and models" was invented by Ross F. Elliot (Parkland, Fla.), Seth Haberman (New York), Michael A. Baumer (Bethesda, Md.) and Nakul Dawra (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for viewing, storing, transmitting, searching, and editing application-specific audiovisual content (or other unstructured data) are disclosed in which edge devices generate content on the fly from a partial set of instructions rather than merely accessing the content in its fin...