ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,878, issued on June 30, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for automated metadata generation for multimedia content using multimodal data" was invented by Adwait Ashish Murudkar (Somerville, N.J.), Vidhya Seran (Irving, Texas) and Sergey Virodov (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may receive a multimedia content file. The device may divide the multimedia content file into a set of logical entities. The device may generate a set of embeddings for each logical entity of the set of logical entities. The device may compare groups of logica...