ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,824, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Delivery of apps in a media stream" was invented by Nurinder Manj (San Jose, Calif.) and Eswar Priyadarshan (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embedding a reduced-content application bundle (a "reduced app bundle") such as a video overlay reduced app bundle into a media stream, and launching that reduced app bundle over a network connection without first performing a substantial downloading and installation of the software on the device is disclosed."

The patent was filed on June 24, 2020, under Application No. 16/911,355.

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