ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,164, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Video timed anchors" was invented by Prashant Baheti (Santa Clara, Calif.), Matthew Linkous (San Francisco), Wei Peng (Fremont, Calif.), Cheriana Crystal Gretchen Griggs (San Bruno, Calif.), Kathryn Malia Tice (Mill Valley, Calif.), Pierce Anthony Vollucci (Mountain View, Calif.), Sam Becker (San Rafael, Calif.), Rick Maria Frederikus Van Mook (Utrecht, Netherlands), Tsutomu Ohkura (Tokyo), Yi Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Dimitra Papachristou (Mountain View, Calif.), Edward Santos (Lafayette, Calif.), Nicolas Crowell (Mountain View, Calif.), Steffanie McBrian (Mountain View, Calif.), Neesha Subramaniam (Palo ...