ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,523, issued on April 29, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for stabilizing videos" was invented by Cesar Douady (Orsay, France), Thomas Derbanne (Paris) and Maxim Karpushin (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Visual content is captured by an image capture device during a capture duration. The image capture devices experiences change in position during the capture duration. The trajectory of the image capture device is smoothed based on a look ahead of the trajectory. A punchout of the visual content is determined based on the smoothed trajectory. The punchout of the visual content is used to genera...