US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 11 for "Subscribe to people in videos" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,276, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Subscribe to people in videos" was invented by Justin Lewis (Marina del Rey, Calif.) and Kevin Greene (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for enabling users to subscribe to people and other tagged entities is provided herein. Such a method includes maintaining subscription data specifying a plurality of entities subscribed to by a plurality of users, with each of the plurality of entities being a tagged entity associated with a tag. The method further includes identifying a media item associated with one or more tagged...