ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,027, issued on July 14, was assigned to ATEME (Velizy Villacoublay, France).

"Method for media stream processing and apparatus for implementing the same" was invented by Thibaud Biatek (Velizy Villacoublay, France), Eric Toullec (Velizy Villacoublay, France) and Lucas Gregory (Velizy Villacoublay, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing a media stream is proposed, which comprises, at a media distribution unit comprising a processor: upon receiving, from a player device, a request for a media data segment of the media content stream, determining a media data chunk of the one or more media data chunks that corresp...