ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,108, issued on March 31, was assigned to Metal Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for automated speech-to-text captioning" was invented by Aayush Bhutani (Redwood, Calif.) and Dipro Ray (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed systems and methods may include (1) generating a caption for a spoken phrase in a video, (2) determining an accuracy rating for the caption, and (3) in response to determining that the accuracy rating is below an accuracy threshold, prompting a user to manually review the caption prior to publishing the caption. Various other methods, systems, and compu...