ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,604, issued on April 8, was assigned to iStreamPlanet Co. LLC (Las Vegas).

"Method and system to highlight video segments in a video stream" was invented by Nachiketa Mishra (Fremont, Calif.), Steven Roeder (Seattle) and Stephen Slotnick (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to highlight video segments in a video stream, where the method includes receiving a video stream from a video source, identifying a highlight segment within the video stream based on a machine learning model, the highlight segment being deemed to be worthy of replay by the machine learning model, and starting and ending frames of the highlight segment...