ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,273, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Pluto Inc. (West Hollywood, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for managing streaming video sub-clips for frame accurate server side content insertion" was invented by Spencer Adam Shanson (Menlo Park, Calif.), Vadym Kupriianchuk Igorovich (Warsaw, Poland), Pavlo Kalmykov Vasilievich (West Hollywood, Calif.) and Khodos Oleksandr Yevheniiovych (Kyiv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed to efficiently insert new breakpoints into video content. A splicing window for a first breakpoint is applied to a portion of an item of video content, wherein the portion of the it...