US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on April 14 for "Live media sticker streaming" (New York, California, New Jersey, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,056, issued on April 14, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Live media sticker streaming" was invented by Michael Sheppard Horowitz (New York), Byung Il Kang (Great Neck, N.Y.), Maclyn Brandwein (Long Island City, N.Y.), Yurong Jiang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vladimir Shubin (Bellevue, Wash.), Chen Yang (Jersey City, N.J.), Eddy Wang (Jersey City, N.J.), Robert Spychala (New York), Siddhartha Roychowdhury (Fremont, Calif.) and Gabriel Ochoa (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed systems and methods may include (1) receiving, from a broadcaster-user of a live video stream, a selection of (i) an in...