ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,574, issued on June 10, was assigned to Everlaw Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Providing overlapping time redactions in media items" was invented by Kyle Chatman (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing overlapping time range redactions in media items like digital videos is disclosed without loss of information about the individual redactions therein. For example, a platform receives a set of redactions associated with a media item where at least some of the redactions overlap. A process is performed to determine a set of non-overlapping time ranges based on the set of redactions, where the redaction information is associa...