US Patent Issued to Viacom International on May 5 for "System and method for coordinating a transition of a transmission stream" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,070, issued on May 5, was assigned to Viacom International Inc. (New York).

"System and method for coordinating a transition of a transmission stream" was invented by Gregg William Riedel (New York), Jeff Hess (New York) and Christopher Fulton Hundersmarck (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes Memory, Display and Processor. Memory stores application with executable instructions. Processor performs operations: retrieving schedule information for channels to be transmitted simultaneously by a broadcaster, the information includes start and end times for types of content to be transmitted; identifying, from the inform...