ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,283, issued on March 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and media for providing dynamic media sessions with audio stream expansion features" was invented by Christopher Chan (San Francisco), Kenneth J. MacKay (Mountain View, Calif.) and James Carroll West (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and media for providing dynamic media sessions with audio stream expansion features are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include: receiving an indication that audio content associated with a video content item is to be presented by a follower device synchronously ...