ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,130, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Attention based audio experience in streaming of live events" was invented by Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.) and Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for synchronizing a portion of the radio broadcast with a portion of a TV broadcast and switching from TV to radio broadcast upon detecting a triggering condition are described. A determination is made if radio and TV broadcasters are within a local transmission range (e.g., connected via a wire), to broadcast live event feeds directly to each other. If broadcas...