ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,564, issued on July 15, was assigned to FUJIFILM NORTH AMERICA Corp. (Valhalla, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for producing a flipbook" was invented by James Dolce (Penfield, N.Y.), Nathaniel Curry (West Henrietta, N.Y.) and Ryan Moore (West Henrietta, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for producing a flipbook includes a processor that receives a video comprising a plurality of frames, selects a start frame and an end frame, and a plurality of frames therebetween. The processor can analyze the frames of the segment to determine an average rate of change of the plurality of frames and a threshold of relative image difference ...