ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,502, issued on April 7, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Content stream processing" was invented by Zhidong Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Liang Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for content stream processing, a coded content stream of a content stream is received from a server. Second trigger timing information of the coded content stream is obtained. The second trigger timing information is determined based on first trigger timing information of the content stream and stream time change information. The stream time change information indicates a timing change bet...