ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,996, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Processing short video to obtain frequency information" was invented by Christopher Michael Katinas (Livermore, Calif.), Jerilyn A. Timlin (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Thomas A. Reichardt (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are various technologies pertaining to identifying a dominant frequency in an acquired signal, such as a frequency corresponding to a human heartbeat in an acquired video signal. In connection with identifying the dominant frequency, a sub-signal of the acquired signal is extr...