ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,165, issued on March 17, was assigned to Global Tel*Link Corp. (Reston, Va.).

"System and method for audio visual content creation and publishing within a controlled environment" was invented by Alex Petty (Mobile, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing content creation and content publishing in a controlled environment are disclosed herein. A media management device receives an audio track including lyrical content. Further, the media management device performs speech recognition analysis on the audio track to determine lyrical text corresponding to the lyrical content. Additionally, the media managem...