ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,859, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Video special effect processing method and apparatus, and electronic device" was invented by Guopeng Qi (Shenzhen, China) and Renjian Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device obtains a video special effect file. The device extracts a duration scaling logic from the video special effect file. The device obtains a target playback duration that needs to be achieved during application of the video special effect file to a design scene. The target playback duration is different from an original playback duration of th...