ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,787, issued on July 21, was assigned to ANOKI INC. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"System for programming content channels" was invented by Ashish Baldua (San Jose, Calif.), Raghu Kodige (San Carlos, Calif.), Kajal Vibhakar (San Carlos, Calif.), Leena Savkur (Bangalore, India) and Ravi Sarma (Highlands, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for programming content channels based on multimodal extraction of metadata from content, wherein the metadata is extracted by processing one or more scenes in the content to extract metadata corresponding to multiple extraction modes, and an embedding model for each extraction mode wherein an aggre...