ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,153, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to INSCAPE DATA INC. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for partitioning search indexes for improved efficiency in identifying media segments" was invented by Zeev Neumeier (Berkeley, Calif.) and Michael Collette (San Rafael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying a media segment of audio or video content are described. The video segment is identified by deriving data from media content and comparing said data to a reference database in order to identify said video segment. Embodiments of the invention improve the speed and accuracy of the media identification ...