ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,144, issued on March 17, was assigned to Mobii Systems (Pty) Ltd (Cape Town, South Africa).

"Method of providing a time-synchronized multi-stream data transmission" was invented by Michael Don Thacker (Durbanville, South Africa) and Brendan Barrett (Durbanville, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing a time-synchronized multi-stream data transmission includes the steps of: (i) providing a first recording or generating device for providing frames of a first data stream; (ii) encoding the first data stream into packets, wherein each first data stream packet includes a presentation time and a predetermined nu...