ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,217, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multimedia data search using multi-modal feature embeddings" was invented by Gregory Garner (Key Colony Beach, Fla.) and Sunil Ramesh (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosed technology provide solutions for searching objects within multimedia content based on multi-modal embeddings. An example method can include receiving media content including a plurality of video frames. The method can include steps for generating, using a pre-output layer of a machine learning algorithm, one or more multimodal feature embeddings describing at ...