ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,972, issued on July 15.
"Audio/video outroduction by reusing content from introduction and other parts" was invented by Steve Haoxiang Zhang (San Diego) and Danlu Zhang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimedia production method includes: reusing the content in the introduction before the main content or other part in the multimedia file for an outroduction after the main content and playing the audio and/or video content in the reverse direction. A producer can make the multimedia file by attaching such an outroduction. A multimedia editing program can provide a user interface with menu options for such a production tec...