ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,427, issued on June 9, was assigned to NBCUniversal Media LLC (New York).

"Logging and debugging of streaming applications" was invented by Alex Rizzuto (Hoboken, N.J.), Sangeeta Prakash (Dana Point, Calif.), Christian Willett (North Hollywood, Calif.) and Randolph Todd Rimes (Douglas, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for logging OTT device requests and responses are provided. A method may include intercepting, via a logging system, one or more ad requests to be satisfied by an ad server. Data of the ad requests is logged, via the logging system. The request is forwarded to the ad server, which may respond with a...