ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,291, issued on July 1, was assigned to VIMEO.COM INC. (New York).

"On-the-fly/transparent fragmented ISOBMFF to progressive ISOBMFF transmultiplexing proxy" was invented by Derek Buitenhuis (Exeter, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the subject technology includes a method including receiving a request including an input file and a selection. The input file is in the fragmented ISOBMFF format. The method also includes parsing one or more fragments from the input file, generating a cache object based on the fragments, generating an output moov box based on at least one of the fragments or the cache object, calcu...