ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,635, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Visual Supply Co. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for automating video editing" was invented by Genevieve Patterson (Nottingham, N.H.) and Hannah Wensel (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for automatic video processing that employ machine learning models to process input video and understand user video content in a semantic and cultural context. This recognition enables the processing system to recognize interesting temporal events, and build narrative video sequences automatically, for example, by linking or interleaving temporal events or other ...