ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,818, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to JBF Interlude 2009 LTD (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Shader-based dynamic video manipulation" was invented by Jonathan Bloch (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tal Zubalsky (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Yuval Hofshy (Kfar Saba, Israel), Alon Benari (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Tomer Lahav (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Max Goz (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Divya Mahadevan (East Greenwich, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Real-time video manipulation techniques include performing shader-based graphical operations on user interface elements based on the state of an interactive video and the properties associated with the user interface elements at the state. ...