ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,955, issued on April 15, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Generation of a collection of video clips" was invented by Alexander Collins (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Alexander Vodovoz (Inglewood, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generation of a collection of video clips from a plurality of video files includes performing facial recognition on a video file of the plurality of video files to identify a portion of the video file including a face, generating a video clip by trimming the portion of the video file including the face, from the video file, and adding the video clip to the collection of video cl...