US Patent Issued to Google on June 23 for "Discovering and displaying media content related to an electronic document" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,114, issued on June 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Discovering and displaying media content related to an electronic document" was invented by Dave Scott Fisher (Mountain View, Calif.), Vincent Dureau (Palo Alto, Calif.) and William Noah Schilit (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer-readable storage mediums, and methods for discovering and displaying media content related to an electronic document. At a first computing device, one or more media entities associated with an electronic document are obtained from a server. A representation of a subset of the media entities is di...