ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,003, issued on March 17, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Determining topic chapters for digital videos utilizing a sliding window and video segmentation machine learning models" was invented by Linzi Xing (Vancouver, Canada), Franck Dernoncourt (Seattle), Fabian David Caba Heilbron (Campbell, Calif.), Seunghyun Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Zhaowen Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Trung Bui (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for segmenting digital videos into topic chapters utilizing a sliding window and video segment...