ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,067, issued on March 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Dynamic thumbnail representation for a video playlist" was invented by Aaron Joseph Wheeler (San Francisco) and Chris Lauritzen (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video playlist associated with a set of videos is distinguished in a graphical user interface using a dynamic thumbnail to represent the playlist. The dynamic thumbnail comprises a static portion comprising a first image associated with the set of videos and a dynamic portion comprising one or more second images associated with the set of videos. An image provided in the dynamic port...