US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 24 for "Automated content highlighting based on spoken commands" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,161, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated content highlighting based on spoken commands" was invented by Xiao Xia Mao (Shanghai), Wei Jun Zheng (Shanghai), Chun Hong Zheng (Beijing), Fu Er Liu (Shanghai), Danlei Zhang (Shanghai) and Xiao Feng Ji (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning (ML) computer model is trained on a dual-modal input sequence comprising target content data and an input user query specifying attributes for locating a portion within the target content data. The ML computer model is trained to process the dual-modal input sequence and ...