ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,023, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) and University of Maryland (College Park, Md.).

"Generating temporal dependency graphs" was invented by Puneet Mathur (College Park, Md.), Vlad Morariu (Potomac, Md.), Verena Kaynig-Fittkau (Cambridge, Mass.), Jiuxiang Gu (College Park, Md.), Franck Dernoncourt (Seattle), Quan Tran (San Jose, Calif.), Ani Nenkova (Philadelphia), Dinesh Manocha (College Park, Md.) and Rajiv Jain (Falls Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that generates a temporal dependency graph. F...