US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 1 for "Summarization based on timing data" (California, Washington, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,963, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Summarization based on timing data" was invented by Boris Smus (Seattle), Vikas Bahirwani (San Francisco), Ruofei Du (San Francisco), Christopher Ross (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Alex Olwal (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a computing system comprises generating text from audio data and determining an end portion of the text to include in a summarization of the text based on a length of a portion of the audio data from which the text was generated and which ends with a proposed end portion and a time value associated with the...