ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,534, issued on June 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Creating video bookmarks in response to content-related queries" was invented by Dongeek Shin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a video bookmark is provided. The method can include receiving a prompt comprising a description associated with a target scene within a video, generating a prompt embedding from the received prompt, identifying, based on a set of image embeddings each corresponding to a frame of the video, an image embedding corresponding to the prompt embedding, and generating a video bookmark at a frame associ...