ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,642, issued on March 25, was assigned to YAHOO AD TECH LLC (New York).

"Computerized system and method for fine-grained video frame classification and content creation therefrom" was invented by Deven Santosh Shah (San Jose, Calif.), Avijit Shah (Santa Clara, Calif.), Topojoy Biswas (San Jose, Calif.) and Biren Barodia (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that enables cost-effective, accurate and scalable detection and recognition of key events in sporting or live events. The framework functions by creating a domain-specific video dataset with frame level annota...