ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,134, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Synchronizing live and pre-recorded content of media programs" was invented by Charlotte Barge (Atlanta), John Robert Ciancutti (Portola Valley, Calif.), Pratik GuhaRay (Kenmore, Wash.), Rakshit Karnawat (Seattle), Sanjeev Kumar (Brookhaven, Ga.), Michael Klingbeil (North Haven, Conn.), Madhuri R. Marri (Cumming, Ga.), Puneet K Puri (San Jose, Calif.), Steven Sabonjohn (Los Angeles), Hiten Vasnani (Los Angeles) and Ankit Kumar Yadav (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synchronization system or module controls the transmission of voice or music (or...