ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,868, issued on June 30, was assigned to Nutshell Media Inc. (Woodland Hills, Calif.).

"System, device, and method for user customizable streaming video playback" was invented by F. Elmo Weber (Woodland Hills, Calif.) and Alan Rasulovich Omarov (Belgrade, Serbia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for customizable video playback includes: a customizable video playback server including a video database and a playback manager; and a plurality of customizable video playback devices, each including a dynamic index file and a playback controller, wherein the customizable video playback device enables a user to select a source video fro...