ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,401, issued on May 13, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Transcript paragraph segmentation and visualization of transcript paragraphs" was invented by Hanieh Deilamsalehy (Seattle), Aseem Omprakash Agarwala (Seattle), Haoran Cai (Mercer Island, Wash.), Hijung Shin (Arlington, Mass.), Joel Richard Brandt (Venice, Calif.) and Lubomira Assenova Dontcheva (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for segmenting a transcript into paragraphs. In an example embodiment, a transcript is segmented to start a new paragraph whenever there is a c...