ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,275, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).
"Media component alignment and transfer" was invented by Taryn C. Nihei (New York), Giuseppe Manzari (Sunland, Calif.), Monica Alfaro Vendrell (Barcelona, Spain), Daniel J. Brooks (Pasadena, Calif.) and Luis Ramon Ramirez Rodriguez (Santiago, Chile).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for alignment of temporal markers and media content. These techniques include identifying a first plurality of temporal markers for alignment with a first item of media content, and determining, using a computer processor, alignment for the markers and media content....