US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises on Feb. 17 for "Multi-variant content streaming" (Washington, Connecticut, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,770, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Multi-variant content streaming" was invented by Adam D. Eivy (Vashon, Wash.), Dionysius Mavromatis (Kirkland, Wash.), Katharine H. Ham (Charleston, S.C.), Eliza D. McNair (West Hartford, Conn.) and Christiaan A. Cokas (Chester, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-variant content streaming system includes processing hardware and a system memory storing software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to stream primary content to a plurality of media players, and receive, from a first media player of the plural...