ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,648, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Agents for monitoring live broadcasts for policy enforcement" was invented by Jason Donahue (San Francisco), Pratik GuhaRay (Kenmore, Wash.), Rakshit Karnawat (Seattle), Sanjeev Kumar (Redmond, Wash.), William Jeffrey Lett (Atlanta), Ayman Mahfouz (Culver City, Calif.) and Ankit Kumar Yadav (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As a media program is aired to listeners, agents executed by a control system monitor actions by the creator or by listeners to ensure that the creator or the listeners comply with relevant policies and that the media program ...