ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,903, issued on March 18, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Composite video generation" was invented by Guillaume Oules (Bordeaux, France) and Anais Oules (Bordeaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Locations in which a person is depicted within video frames may be determined to identify portions of the video frames to be included in a composite video. A background image not including any depiction of the person may be generated, and the identified portions of the video frames may be inserted into the background image to generate the composite video."

The patent was filed on May 3, 2023, under Application No. 18/...