ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,241, issued on April 7, was assigned to SportsCastr Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Systems, apparatus and methods for topic extraction from digital media and real-time display of digital content relating to one or more extracted topics" was invented by Peter Azuolas (Las Vegas) and Kevin April (Lake Forest, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A webpage or an application view of an app displayed on a viewer device includes primary digital content. A request from the viewer device is transmitted and received, via at least one webserver, to embed secondary digital content in a topic extraction platform (TEP) unit on the displayed webpage or applica...