ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,112, issued on July 29, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Fast video content matching" was invented by Miquel Angel Farre Guiu (Bern, Switzerland), Pablo Pernias (Sant Joan d'Alacant, Spain), Albert Aparicio Isarn (Barcelona, Spain) and Marc Junyent Martin (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video content matching system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code. When executed, the software code obtains a reference digital profile of a reference video segment, obtains a target digital profile of target video content, and compares the referen...