ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,355, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AXIS AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method and image-processing device for adding an overlay to a video sequence" was invented by Johan Nystrom (Lund, Sweden), Johan Forberg (Lund, Sweden) and Song Yuan (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adding an overlay to a video sequence includes determining whether a content of the overlay is updated within a time period; then determining whether to provide a second representation of the overlay in a compressed format, wherein it is determined to provide the second representation in response to determining that the content of the overlay is not...