ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,125, issued on March 18, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (New York).

"Audience feedback for large streaming events" was invented by Ofer Shem Tov (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments are directed toward local emotion detection during live streaming events. A client device receives a video stream from a remote server and captures media content while displaying the video stream. The client device uses a local machine learning/artificial intelligence event detection model to detect events in the media content. The client device then transmits detected events to the remote server involved in the li...