ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,435, issued on May 12, was assigned to PlayFusion Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Video playback recognition apparatus and method" was invented by Mark Michael Gerhard (Cambridge, Great Britain), Riaan Henning Hodgson (Cambridge, Great Britain) and David Gomberg (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes processing live image data captured by a camera associated with a first device. The live image data is displayed by the first device. A video displayed by a second device is viewable within the live image data displayed by the first device. The live image data is processed to identify a spatial positi...