ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,178, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to DK Crown Holdings Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for multi-client content delivery" was invented by Nathan Giacalone (Cambridge, Mass.), Ryan McCullough (Reading, Mass.), Sumanth Reddy (Cambridge, Mass.), Brandon Ward (Somerville, Mass.) and Andrew Busch (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for synchronized multi-client content delivery, and a content selection system based on individual and aggregated scores for the content items, to generate bundles or sets of content items having approximately corresponding score...