ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,724, issued on May 12, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Coherent slow-motion video displayed across multiple devices" was invented by Joshua Bodinet (San Diego), Ulaganathan Sriramulu (San Jose, Calif.), Abhishek Kumar Singh (San Jose, Calif.) and Cheung Ng (Daly City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises receiving one or more indications corresponding to one or more derivative video files. Each derivative video file of the one or more derivative video files has a different frame rate. The method further comprises selecting an indication of a derivative video file with a corresponding derivative vide...