ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,405, issued on May 5, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Aventura, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for exporting video sections with overlays" was invented by Rodney Eng (Brookly, N.Y.), Matthew Fedderly (Washington) and Michael Wolf (Falls Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for exporting videos. In some embodiments, a method includes the steps of: accessing a video section based upon a request; generating a plurality of still images based on a plurality of video frames in the video section; playing the plurality of still images inside a web browser; and drawing one or more overlays on the...