ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,178, issued on May 5.

"Systems and methods for editing a video recording in progress" was invented by Nishant Shah (Aurora, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile app based digital media recording system with an auto-start clip toggle mode that allows a user to begin recording at the same time, in parallel, a main digital media stream and a clip stream taken from the main stream, on a single activation of a record control. A separate clip control allows the user to set an endpoint of the clip stream to create a clip segment which can be labeled within a main file generated from the main stream and stored as a separate file. A GPS...