ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,358, issued on July 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Processing of video operations as subtasks for video fragments" was invented by Nicholas Tegan Heckman (Kirkland, Wash.), Steven Craig Peterson (Bloomington, Minn.), Nitin Suri (Redmond, Wash.) and Jason Allen Whitehouse (Lisbon, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and solutions are described for executing a video processing task. A video processing task is received that includes one or more operations to be performed on a digital video file and an identifier of the digital video file. The video processing task is divided into...