ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,397, issued on May 5, was assigned to NBCUniversal Media LLC (New York).

"Systems and methods for performing live transcription" was invented by Timothy Rolf Fassnacht (Morristown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is generally directed to a tangible, non-transitory machine-readable medium that includes machine-readable instructions that, when executed, cause processing circuitry to receive a first indication of multimedia content and a second indication of whether the multimedia content is to be transcribed. The instructions cause the processing circuitry to send content generated from the multimedia content f...