ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,737, issued on March 24, was assigned to NBCUNIVERSAL MEDIA LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"Production resource object manager" was invented by Steven Daurio (Cliffwood, N.J.), Jason Sturgill (Springfield, N.J.), Michael Baek (New York), Robert Dayrit (Nutley, N.J.), Robert Barton (Buchanan, N.Y.), Tanya McFarland (Wantagh, N.Y.) and Andrew Burnheimer (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to at least one embodiment, a method for providing connectivity between a remote source and a control room is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a request to connect the remote source and the control room; and in response t...