ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,540, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Constructor Technology AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) and Constructor Education and Research Genossenschaft (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"System and method for automatic video summarization" was invented by Andrei Boiarov (Sofia, Bulgaria), Kseniia Alekseitseva (Sofia, Bulgaria), Anton Kivich (Belgrade, Serbia), Sergey Ulasen (Singapore), Ilya Shimchik (Zurich), Serg Bell (Singapore), Stanislav Protasov (Singapore) and Nikolay Dobrovolskiy (Alanya, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatic generation of highlights of video. The system includes a video processor to se...