ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,046, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Lenovo (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, Calif.).

"Workflow content generation via video analysis" was invented by Andrew Hansen (Morrisville, N.C.), Vikram Sharma (Morrisville, N.C.), Sarang Deshpande (Morrisville, N.C.) and Sriram C Thota (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a device includes a processor system and storage accessible to the processor system. The storage includes instructions executable by the processor system to, responsive to a user query, parse data related to a source video to identify discrete steps that conform to the user query. The discrete s...