Cozaint's U.S. Patent for MARCIA Architecture Bridges Long-Term Video Retention and VMS Accessibility

Cozaint Corporation, a San Diego-based company founded in 2018, has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 12,755,902 for its MARCIA™ Intelligent Video Lifecycle Management (IVLM) platform. The patent, titled 'Video Surveillance Playback System with Multi-Tiered Storage,' protects a core architecture that allows operators to retrieve archived surveillance video from long-term Linear Tape-Open (LTO) storage directly through their existing Video Management Software (VMS) timeline, without initiating a separate archive-retrieval process.

This development addresses a longstanding tradeoff in the surveillance industry: organizations have had to choose between affordable long-term video retention and practical accessibility. Conventional archive solutions often require operators to leave their familiar VMS environment, manually locate archived media, or launch separate restoration procedures before historical video can be reviewed. MARCIA eliminates that divide by using middleware between the VMS and storage infrastructure to manage video across multiple storage tiers, maintaining the relationship between recorded video, time, and physical storage location. When an operator requests historical footage, MARCIA determines where the recordings reside and, if they have migrated to LTO, recalls and restores them into the storage structure expected by the VMS for normal playback.

The patented architecture is VMS-independent, meaning it can be applied across supported VMS environments while operators continue to use familiar timeline and playback controls. MARCIA currently supports Milestone XProtect, Hanwha WAVE, Digital Watchdog Spectrum IPVMS, Network Optix Nx Witness, PIKO VMS, and BOBBYvms, with additional platforms continually being added. This flexibility could significantly impact Texas businesses and organizations that rely on enterprise surveillance, particularly as deployments grow into petabyte-scale environments. By leveraging the economics, durability, and energy efficiency of LTO technology, MARCIA helps reduce storage costs while extending retention periods to satisfy regulatory, operational, investigative, legal, and business intelligence requirements.

Takuma Yano, General Manager of FUJIFILM North America Corp.'s Data Storage Solutions division, commented, 'For decades, LTO technology has provided organizations with a trusted foundation for long-term preservation. Innovation such as Cozaint's patented architecture demonstrates how enterprise software can unlock new value from proven storage technologies by making long-term archived content more accessible within day-to-day operational environments.'

Nauzad Sadry, Chief Technology Officer of Cozaint Corporation, added, 'This patent represents years of engineering focused on solving one of the surveillance industry's longest-standing challenges. Organizations should never have to choose between retaining valuable visual evidence and maintaining operational simplicity. MARCIA bridges that gap by making long-term video preservation a seamless extension of the existing VMS experience at the most affordable storage costs.'

As organizations increasingly recognize the strategic value of long-term visual evidence for security, compliance, investigations, legal defense, operational analytics, and emerging AI applications, Intelligent Video Lifecycle Management is positioned to become an essential architectural layer within enterprise surveillance infrastructure. Preserving original visual history gives organizations the ability to revisit past events with future investigative methods and future generations of AI. For more information about Cozaint's patented MARCIA platform and Intelligent Video Lifecycle Management solutions, visit www.Cozaint.com/marcia. Cozaint's technology enables enterprise visual continuity while reducing the long-term cost burden of traditional disk-only video retention architectures; learn more at www.Cozaint.com.