ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,652, issued on March 11, was assigned to Accretive Technology Group Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for constructing audio/video content" was invented by Jordan Washburn (Louisville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus, and method directed to a process for creating audio, video, or audio-video content in a browser application executing on a client device. In some embodiments, a web-based editing canvas enables a user to create a custom image, set of images, or video by adding audio, video, image, and other forms of "nodes" to a "canvas", and allowing the user to modify the nodes and then compile them into a...