ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,104, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Turner Broadcasting System Inc. (Atlanta).

"Publishing disparate live media output streams in mixed mode based on user selection" was invented by Donald Jude Loheide (Mableton, Ga.), Nishith Kumar Sinha (Mableton, Ga.) and Nicolas Paul Webb (McDonough, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disparate live output stream manifests are generated based on user selection. When current media programming content in an existing first disparate live media output stream is streamed on a media player, a processor determine a set of alternate live input streams and/or a pre-encoded media assets, and associated...