ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,204, issued on Dec. 30.
"Video streaming" was invented by Maarten Tielemans (Langdorp, Belgium), Pieter-Jan Speelmans (Diest, Belgium), Steven Tielemans (Leuven, Belgium) and Egon Okerman (Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server for streaming a video to a client involves making the video available from the server to the client upon request in at least a temporal independent version and a temporal dependent version. The server is configured for: i) receiving a request from the client to receive a stream of the video from an arbitrary starting point in time; and ii) retrieving at least the first frame from t...