ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,229, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to mmhmm inc. (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Online video editing with adaptive HTTP streaming" was invented by Christopher Winson Hinkle (Oakland, Calif.) and Michael M. Liu (Portola Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Editing a video stream includes detecting defects in an original version of the video stream, marking up the original version of the video stream to indicate one or more segments having at least one of the defects that are detected, and building a compact editable copy of the original version of the video stream that includes editing positions corresponding to the one or more segmen...