ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,390, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Enhanced generation and selection of video clips from still frame images" was invented by Shilpa Pundi Ananth (Chennai, India), Sai Sree Harsha (Tumakuru, India), Pooja Ashok Kumar (Bangalore, India), Yashal Shakti Kanungo (Seattle), Sumit Negi (Bangalore, India), Brittney C. Gannon (Clinton, Wash.) and Lauren K. Johnson (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods are provided for generating and selecting video clips for inclusion in video sequences based on still frame images. A method may include encoding first embeddings ...