ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,174, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Computing systems and methods for retrieving data from a library for use by downstream systems" was invented by Ariel Gilder (Fair Lawn, N.J.), Piotr Zielinski (New Providence, N.J.) and Alexandros Panagopoulos (Leonia, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides computing systems and methods for cataloging, retrieving, and/or organizing user-generated content associated with objects. Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a systems and methods which utilize computers to enable users to interact with libraries of user-generated con...