ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,678, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Platform for selection of media content versions" was invented by Gaute Bertheussen (Oslo, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimedia platform receives, from a user device, a first request to access a media content stream that is concurrently accessible to a plurality of subscriber devices. The multimedia platform determines a current content item in the media content stream. The multimedia platform causes a first version of the current content item to be provided to the user device based on a request attribute (e.g., an audio output hardware, an applicati...