ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,952, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for synchronizing rendering of video frames during scrubbing" was invented by Mark Mapes (San Jose, Calif.), Kriti Sharma (San Jose, Calif.) and Douglas Smith (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media player includes an improved render process that synchronizes seeking operations with frame rendering. A media player receives a first input selecting a first location of a media segment. The thread executes a call to a dynamic renderer to render a first frame corresponding to the first location. The thread initiates a thread block to...