ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,712, issued on July 15, was assigned to SHANGHAI BILIBILI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Browser-based frame extraction method and system" was invented by Qiang Fu (Shanghai), Pengcheng Li (Shanghai), Xiaofeng Ji (Shanghai) and Jun Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application provide a browser-based frame extraction method. The method includes: monitoring a target operation of a user on a target page of a browser; obtaining a local video file associated with the target operation; and extracting a plurality of target frames from the local video file using a WebAssembly video parser in the brows...