ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,955, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Adeia Media Holdings Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network monitoring to determine performance of infrastructure service providers" was invented by Michael Gordon (Paradise Valley, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for serving a manifest file of an adaptive streaming video include receiving a request for the manifest file from a user device. The video is encoded at different reference bitrates and each encoded reference bitrate is divided into segments to generate video segment files. The manifest file includes an ordered list of universal resource locators (URLs) that reference a set o...