ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,797, issued on March 3, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Retrieval, annotation, and selection of video segments" was invented by Huy Thong Nguyen (Mountain View, Calif.), Benjamin John Louie (Newark, Calif.), Canwen Jiao (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Chunglin Wen (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, devices, and non-transitory computer readable media for video frame search and retrieval are provided. The disclosed technology can include receiving a search query. Based on inputting the search query into machine-learned models, a search query embedding can be generated. Based on compari...