ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,842, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Dice Corp. (Bay City, Mich.).

"Rapid video search system and method of using the same" was invented by Gerald Corrion (Bay City, Mich.), Clifford Dice (Midland, Mich.), Kevin Kilborn (Bay City, Mich.) and Abdulrahman Zaiter (Bay City, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for video management may provide a GUI that may enable repeating the steps of user thumbnail selection, representative subdivision of a recorded video to be viewed based on the thumbnail selected, and display of representative thumbnails in a GUI. The representative thumbnails may be selected based on a parame...