US Patent Issued to SATURN LICENSING on Feb. 10 for "User placement of closed captioning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,821, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SATURN LICENSING LLC (New York).

"User placement of closed captioning" was invented by Brant Candelore (Escondido, Calif.), Mahyar Nejat (San Diego) and Peter Shintani (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Placement of Closed Captioning (CC) in content by a content provider is overridden by means of a user interface (UI) that allows the user to place CC on screen on top of the video. The CC may be derived directly from the audio and synchronized with play of the audio and video."

The patent was filed on Aug. 20, 2021, under Application No. 17/407,986.

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