ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,839, issued on May 26, was assigned to Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast Ltd. (Dublin).

"Systems and methods for improving asset download time using forward error correction" was invented by Sherry Ignatchenko (Weidling, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods described herein provide techniques for improving asset download time using forward error correction to recover lost packets or data. In various implementations, a sending device may be configured to encode redundant data in a data stream that enables a receiving device to reconstruct the data in the file if a portion of the data is not received. The ...