ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,275, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Editing video captured by electronic devices" was invented by Terek Judi (Long Beach, Calif.), Dmytro Kucher (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Shaofeng Mo (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Imani Ritchards (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems, computer readable medium and methods include receiving a video taken from a drone where the drone followed a flight path based on a flight plan. A user interface is presented that provides options for the user to select video editing effects to be performed on the video where the options are based on the flight p...