ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,479, issued on June 10, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for real-time processing of live media streams" was invented by Stephan Leroux (East Gwillimbury, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining video data for a video stream; detecting a first object in at least one video frame of the video stream, the first object being one of a first set of defined objects associated with the video stream; and in response to detecting the first object: identifying the first object as a current target object associated with the video stream; and causing disp...