US Patent Issued to Smule on April 22 for "Template-based excerpting and rendering of multimedia performance" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,290, issued on April 22, was assigned to Smule Inc. (San Francisco).

"Template-based excerpting and rendering of multimedia performance" was invented by Jeffrey Christopher Smith (Atherton, Calif.), Perry Raymond Cook (Jacksonville, Ore.), David Adam Steinwedel (San Francisco) and Ka Yee Chan (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable storage-medium embodiments for implementing template-based excerpting and rendering of multimedia performances technologies. An embodiment includes at least one computer processor configured to retrieve a first content ...