ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,278, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for video summarization" was invented by Dawit Mureja Argaw (Daejeon, South Korea), Seunghyun Yoon (San Jose, Calif.), Fabian David Caba Heilbron (San Jose, Calif.), Hanieh Deilamsalehy (Seattle), Trung Huu Bui (San Jose, Calif.), Zhaowen Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Franck Dernoncourt (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system for video summarization include obtaining a video, generating a sequence of contextualized visual representations corresponding to portions of the vid...