US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Feb. 11 for "Systems and methods for selecting product placement locations and products" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,524, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for selecting product placement locations and products" was invented by Mauricio Alejandro Flores Rios (Seattle), Han-Kai Hsu (Seattle), Yujia Chen (Bellevue, Wash.), Linda Liu (Seattle) and Yash Chaturvedi (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for determining virtual product placement opportunities in a media content and determining product candidates for virtual insertion into the media content. The product placement system may determine shot segments from the media c...