ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,280, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to igolgi Inc. (Princeton, N.J.).

"Just in time transcoder system, method and architecture for audio and video applications" was invented by Kumar Ramaswamy (Pennington, N.J.), Jeffrey Allen Cooper (Newport Center, Vt.) and John William Richardson (Grayslake, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and architectures for video and/or audio processing and distribution are described. More particularly, a just in time transcoder/transcoding (JITT) is employed. If a matching optimal asset segment with calculated optimal asset attributes requested by a client device is not stored in a server,...