ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,699, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System, method, and computer program for multimodal video retrieval" was invented by Zhiming Hu (Vaughan, Canada), Ning Ye (Toronto), Iqbal Ismail Mohomed (Markham, Canada) and Salar Hosseini Khorasgani (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are system, method, and device for performing multimodal video retrieval. According to embodiments, the method may include: obtaining a first plurality of frames of a video; selecting a second plurality of frames from among the first plurality of frames using a frame selection module, wherei...