ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,762, issued on May 6, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for inserting content into videos" was invented by Rawia Mhiri Ep Hakim (San Mateo, Calif.), Guillaume Abbe (Paris) and Jean-Baptiste Noel (Le Vesinet, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video and an object to be inserted into visual content of the video may be obtained. Trajectory of an image capture device during capture of the video may be used to determine placement of the object within the visual content. The visual content may be modified to include the object based on the placement of the object."

The patent was filed on July 7, 20...