ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,420, issued on April 8, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Video segments for a video related to a task" was invented by Kerwell Liao (San Francisco), Nikhil Sharma (Mountain View, Calif.), LaDawn Risenmay Jentzsch (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jennifer Ellen Fernquist Seth (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus related to identifying a video for completing a task and determining a plurality of video segments of the identified video based on one or more attributes of the task. A task and a plurality of how-to videos related to the task may be identified. A how-to video may be selected and ...