ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,787, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Adhoc aggregators for dynamic video pipelines" was invented by Xiao Kun Yao (Seattle), Charles M. Cordova (Seattle) and Deepali Sharma (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Linear playout provides media content according to a schedule, including live events. Media pipelines for ingesting and providing live event content may be allocated and torn down before and after each live event. Allocating media pipelines for each live event in a season reduces computational resource consumption."

The patent was filed on Sept. 17, 2024, under Application No. 18/887,8...