US Patent Issued to PLAYBACK on Feb. 3 for "Video streaming authorization" (California, New York, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,940, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to PLAYBACK INC. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Video streaming authorization" was invented by Robert Joshua Halperin (San Francisco), Ariel Samuel Borensztein (Philadelphia) and Thomas Anthony Berger (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes for a plurality of devices, each of the plurality of devices having access to a first video stream from at least one of a plurality of streamers of the first video stream, confirming authorization to access the first video stream from one of the plurality of streamers of the first video stream, selecting a first streamer from the plurality of the ...