ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,455, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to mmhmm inc. (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Optimal mapping of immersive video presentations between devices with different form factors" was invented by Stephen James White (San Francisco), Phil Libin (Bentonville, Ark.) and Leonid Kitainik (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mapping a source video stream to a screen of a target device includes extracting separate objects from the source video stream, identifying a subset of the objects that correspond to a presentation area, and creating a target video stream that is displayed on the target device by arranging the separate objects to enhance ...