ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,881, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to LIVECLOUDTV LLC (Wilton, Conn.).

"Event streaming with added content and context" was invented by Bryant R. Linares (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Bruce M. Likly (Wilton, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a video stream from a camera at an event, receiving a media asset associated with the event, wherein the media asset is interactive, combining the video stream and media asset, rendering an augmented combined video and media asset stream, and transmitting the rendered augmented combined video and media asset stream to one or more viewer devices such that the video stream...