ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,775, issued on July 21, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for reducing latency in video streaming" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for reducing latency in video streaming. At least a first portion of a live content item is encoded, using a first encoder, into a first bitstream, which is packaged into a first plurality of segments that start at a first time in the live content item. An offset is determined. At least a second portion of the live content item is encoded, using a se...