ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,823, issued on June 24, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Accelerated video editing" was invented by Wei Jun Zheng (Shanghai), Jian Jun Wang (Xi'an, China), Yue Gao (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Ting Chen (Beijing), Chun Hong Zheng (Beijing) and Yin Hu (Ningbo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for accelerated video editing that includes providing a video, segmenting, using a segmentation module, the video into a number of clips, and automatically computing, for each clip of the number of clips, corresponding metadata representing at least one attribute of the clip based on an analysis of ...