ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,986, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Platform for multi-stream sampling and visualization" was invented by Xavier Geerinck (Aventin, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stream tool is disclosed that allows a user to seamlessly connect with the different data streams, regardless of the streams' transmission platforms or communication protocols, in order to visually see a representation of the type of data that the data streams are transmitting. A user may specify a particular data stream and provide corresponding connection details. A collection of abstracted software funct...