ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,467, issued on May 20, was assigned to Petal Cloud Technology Co. Ltd. (Dongguan, China).

"Video splitting method and electronic device" was invented by Wenbo Wei (Wuhan, China), Zhigang Guo (Dongguan, China) and Youjun Wang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a video splitting method and an electronic device. When the method is performed by a server, the server processes a long video into a plurality of short videos, and then a terminal obtains the short video from the server and plays the short video; or when the method is performed by a terminal, the terminal obtains a long video from a server...