US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Cost and efficiency optimization in channel playout" (Canadian, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,164, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Cost and efficiency optimization in channel playout" was invented by Yongjun Wu (Bellevue, Wash.), Vitaly Panor (Maple, Canada), Abhishek Trivedi (Brampton, Canada), Saumil Patel (Brampton, Canada), Ravindra Ganti (Sammamish, Wash.), John F.X. Gaquin (Lynnwood, Wash.), Ho Yin Ng (Milton, Canada), Joohoon Kim (Thornhill, Canada), Shazia Khan (London) and Benjamin Raphael Forman (Watford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Linear playout provides media content according to a schedule. Live events and video on demand (VOD) assets may be provided as pa...