US Patent Issued to YAHOO ASSETS on April 8 for "Automatic digital content captioning using spatial relationships method and apparatus" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,814, issued on April 8, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (New York).

"Automatic digital content captioning using spatial relationships method and apparatus" was invented by Simao Herdade (San Francisco), Armin Kappeler (Thalwil, Switzerland), Kofi Boakye (Oakland, Calif.) and Joao Vitor Baldini Soares (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, ...