US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on July 14 for "Systems and methods for automating video reformatting" (Washington, New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,204, issued on July 14, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for automating video reformatting" was invented by Matthew Hannan (Austin, Texas), Stephen Crowley (Seattle) and William B Harding (Katonah, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include detecting, by a computing device, a command to clip a video segment from a video stream. The method may also include extracting, by the computing device, the video segment from the video stream based on the command. Additionally, the method may include automatically identifying, by the computing device, on...