ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,106, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Pimloc Ltd. (Yarnton, Great Britain).

"Selective video modification" was invented by Simon William Randall (Yarnton, Great Britain), James Leigh (Yarnton, Great Britain), Julian Ralph Windyer Morris (Yarnton, Great Britain) and Nicholas Benedict van Someren (Yarnton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for processing a video stream is provided. The method comprises receiving a video stream, selecting portions of the image data, and modifying the selected portions to generate modified portions of image data. Second data is generated for use in recovering at...