ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,660, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for retrieving relevant video footage based on a natural language query" was invented by Leonardo Taccari (Florence, Italy), Yari Marchetti (Poggibonsi, Italy), Andrea Benericetti (Prato, Italy), Matteo Simoncini (Pistoia, Italy), Alessio Sanfratello (Lamporecchio, Italy) and Tommaso Innocenti (Florence, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive video data and description data, and may extract image embeddings and video embeddings from the video data. The device may receive a query that includes a natu...