ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,122, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Canva Pty Ltd (Surry Hills, Australia).

"Systems and methods for synchronizing visual content to audio" was invented by Rowan James Katekar (Randwick, Australia), Clarence Feng (Sydney), Julia Leinmore (Mount Pleasant, Australia), An Nguyen (Sydney), Johanna Somerville (Sydney) and Liam Rayner (Warragul, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for displaying beat markers in a visual production user interface are disclosed. The method includes: displaying, on a display, the visual production user interface including a timeline region, the timeline region including: an audio ...