ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,978, issued on March 31, was assigned to MK Systems USA Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for multicasting live content" was invented by Alex Macaulay (Rennes, France), Richard Fliam (Wilmington, Del.), Joseph Kiok (Wilmington, Del.), Timothy Lett (Wilmington, Del.), Todd A. Lund (Wilmington, Del.) and Mark Niebur (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, devices and methods for multicasting live content. A multicast server transmits live content data by way of a multicast transmission to gateway devices. A gateway device is configured for: receiving the live content data by way of th...