ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,444, issued on April 7, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for automated digital editing" was invented by Alicia Fujun Lew (La Honda, Calif.), Zachary Ian Howard (San Francisco), Sara Mousavicheshmehkaboodi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Bina Thakkar (Cary, N.C.), Anish Doshi (San Francisco), Bo Shuang (Missouri City, Texas) and Wen Wang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed computer-implemented method may include presenting, within a video creation interface, a list of video styles, each video style within the list of video styles representative of a trained model, the traine...