ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,888, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Delivery of intermediate media during retrieval of requested media" was invented by Dongeek Shin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes systems and techniques for presenting intermediate media to a user that has presented a media request. In aspects, a media request for requested media is received from an input device. The media request is provided to a media service to serve the requested media to a requested device. The media request is processed to identify attributes of the media request indicative of a subject matter of...