ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,545, issued on May 19, was assigned to Thomson Licensing (Cesson-Sevigne, France).
"Seamless audio and video transition" was invented by Sundaramoorthy Balasubramanian (Horsham, Pa.) and Baskaran Kandasamy (Horsham, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media device provides seamless transitioning between a plurality of media applications. A selection of a second media application can cause the media device to switch from a first media application to the second media application so as to cause the display of second content associated with the second media application without significant interruption in the viewing experience of a user....