US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Transition file for use with content file and related metadata" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,373, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Transition file for use with content file and related metadata" was invented by Yongjun Wu (Bellevue, Wash.), Abhishek Kumar (Bothell, Wash.), Alon Dulce (Woodinville, Wash.), Sitaraman Ganapathy (Issaquah, Wash.), Kyle Alexander Woo (Kent, Wash.), Varun Chadha (Seattle) and Tarun Jindal (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for transition files for use with content files and related metadata are described. In an example, a system determines a cue point of a video content file at which targeted content is to be presented. The system determines t...