ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,893, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Video player with assisted seek" was invented by Julian Frumar (San Francisco), Jasson Schrock (Mountain View, Calif.), Ryan Junee (San Francisco), Simon Ratner (San Francisco) and Geoff Stearns (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for presenting content comprises receiving a content item; receiving a plurality of thumbnails from the content item, each thumbnail associated with a point in the content item; playing the content item starting at a first point; receiving in a user interface a selection at a second point in the content item; prese...