ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,980, issued on April 14, was assigned to JBF Interlude 2009 LTD (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Seamless transitions in large-scale video" was invented by Jonathan Bloch (Tel Aviv, Israel), Barak Feldman (Tenafly, N.J.), Tal Zubalsky (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Yuval Hofshy (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Alon Benari (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method and supporting system for intelligent buffering of large scale videos, a video presentation includes a plurality of sub-videos, each associated with a field of view. During presentation of the large scale video, sub-videos within a user's field of view are loaded and presented to the user, ...