ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,682, issued on June 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Generating boundary points for media content" was invented by Abhishek Kumar (Bothell, Wash.), Yongjun Wu (Bellevue, Wash.), Sitaraman Ganapathy (Issaquah, Wash.), Vasanthakumar Soundararajan (Seattle) and Varun Chadha (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein provide for novel boundary generation features for interleaving additional content into media content. Media content may be received which includes a video and audio portion. An unencrypted encode of the video portion may be generated. A first set of time stamps for the...