ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,105, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Automated compositing of content compilations" was invented by Sanchita Tiwari (Trumbull, Conn.), Dirk Van Dall (Shelter Island, N.Y.) and Jayadas Devassy (Westport, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a memory storing a software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive multiple content units each including a start descriptor for an initial content segment and an end descriptor for a last content segment, identify the start descriptor and...