ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,609, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Using audio anchor points to synchronize recordings" was invented by Jeffrey Bisti (New Paltz, N.Y.), Philip Siconolfi (Croton on Hudson, N.Y.) and Robert Paquin (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for synchronizing recordings by using audio anchor points is provided. The embodiment may include identifying two or more recording devices and a plurality of video recordings, including at least one video recording from each of at least two of t...