ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,402, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for optimizing bandwidth for data transmission" was invented by Siddhartha Pande (Bengaluru, India), Madhusudhan Srinivasan (Karnataka, India) and Deviprasad Punja (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for optimizing bandwidth for broadcast transmission. The disclosed techniques herein provide for receiving first and second content for transmission to subscriber devices on a first and second channels. The system then determines whether the first and second content contain a common se...