ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,673, issued on July 22, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Multi-video annotation" was invented by Roman Goldenberg (Haifa, Israel), Gerard Guy Medioni (Los Angeles), Ofer Meidan (Hadera, Israel), Ehud Benyamin Rivlin (Haifa, Israel) and Dilip Kumar (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple video files that are captured by calibrated imaging devices may be annotated based on a single annotation of an image frame of one of the video files. An operator may enter an annotation to an image frame via a user interface, and the annotation may be replicated from the image frame to other image frames that were capture...