ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,256, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Painted Dog Inc. (New York).

"Machine-based object recognition of video content" was invented by Vincent Alexander Crossley (New York), Jared Max Browarnik (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Tyler Harrison Cooper (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Carl Ducey Jamilkowski (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current interfaces for displaying information about items appearing in videos are obtrusive and counterintuitive. They also rely on annotations, or metadata tags, added by hand to the frames in the video, limiting their ability to display information about items in the videos. In contrast, examples of the systems discl...