ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,696, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Microvideo system, format, and method of generation" was invented by Wei Hong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Radford Ray Juang (Fremont, Calif.) and Marius Renn (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture device includes an image sensor configured to capture raw image data, an image signal processor configured to process the raw image data to form a plurality of image frames, and one or more processors to implement a microvideo generation system. The microvideo generation system is configured to perform a trimming operation relating to the plural...