ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,784, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and methods for obtaining authorized short video clips from streaming media" was invented by Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.) and Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for providing video clips of displayed content for download or sharing. These systems and methods may generate, upon request, clips of events that are ongoing, have already happened, or will happen in the future. A request may specify a particular event and the systems and methods may locate the relevant clip within the content. The systems an...