ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,768, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Adeia Media Holdings LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Lean private copy of media content within network-based digital video recordings" was invented by Do Hyun Chung (San Ramon, Calif.) and Catherine Cho (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques and mechanisms for providing a lean private copy of media content. According to various embodiments, a private copy of a media content item may be made specific to a user account. For example, to use a private copy of a media content item to present that media content item, a client machine may need to first perform operation...