ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,626, issued on July 29, was assigned to SYNERGY SPORTS TECHNOLOGY LLC (Tempe, Ariz.).
"Systems and methods for generating bookmark video fingerprints" was invented by Nils B. Lahr (Snoqualmie, Wash.) and Garrick C. Barr (Anacortes, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for replacing original media bookmarks of at least a portion of a digital media file with replacement bookmarks is described. A media fingerprint engine detects the location of the original fingerprints associated with the portion of the digital media file and a region analysis algorithm characterizes regions of media file spanning the location of th...