ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,673, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ThinkAnalytics Ltd. (Glasgow, Great Britain).

"System and method for generating descriptive metadata" was invented by Christopher McGuire (Glasgow, Great Britain), Peter Docherty (Glasgow, Great Britain) and Rose McKenna (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system for generating a synopsis for a content item comprising: obtaining user data for at least one user and/or associated metadata, wherein the user data and/or associated metadata is based on user activity for the at least one user; receiving content metadata and/or other content informa...