ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,744, issued on July 29, was assigned to 12AM Worldwide Inc. (Encino, Canada).

"Video streaming platform" was invented by Frank Correa (Los Angeles), Sarah Rundell Hakenson (Los Angeles) and Harrison Tobin (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for organizing and retrieving videos including a network, a video display unit and a telephone configured to selectively act as a remote control for the display unit. A video database is located on a platform connected to the network configured to load videos into the database by detecting video type, so that the videos are configured to be searched and indexed ...