ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,275, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Worlds Enterprises Inc. (Colleyville, Texas).

"Systems and methods for automatically extracting objects from images" was invented by Ross Bates (Dallas) and Paul Aarseth (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying and extracting objects from a video frame includes accessing a video frame of a video. The method further includes analyzing the video frame to generate a plurality of masks. Each mask includes neighboring pixels that are determined to be related. The method further includes extracting a plurality of objects from the video frame based on the generated plural...