ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,500, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Personalized video mechanism" was invented by Douglas Neal Cogan (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is described. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store a content editor and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the content editor to receive a selection of a video frame of a background video file displayed within in a graphical user interface (GUI), generate one or more personalization elements indicating personalized data that is to appear in a reference video associated wit...