ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,121, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Techniques for searching through digital media assets" was invented by Niva A. Ran (Stanford, Calif.), Brandon Mach (Alpharetta, Ga.), David Wang (San Francisco), Julia Xu (Mountain View, Calif.), Prashant Nandakumar (Cupertino, Calif.), Soutik Chakraborty (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Xiaoli Xi (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for searching for relevant temporal segments within digital media assets is disclosed. The method may include receiving multiple digital media assets to be considered when responding to search requests, identifying r...