ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,710, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Transforming content across visual mediums using artificial intelligence and user generated media" was invented by Chenguang Yang (Seattle), Xuan Li (Bellevue, Wash.), Peng Qin (Redmond, Wash.), Michael James Bentley (Bellevue, Wash.) and Michael Louis Urciuoli (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements techniques for automatically generating a presentation from a source document or a selection of a portion thereof. These techniques segment the document into a plurality of segments based on subject matter a...