ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,359, issued on July 15, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Suwanee, Ga.).

"System for presentation time stamp recovery from a transcoder" was invented by Brenda Lea Van Veldhuisen (Portland, Ore.) and Robert S. Nemiroff (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transcoding a digital video stream that includes transcoding using a transcoder a video stream that includes presentation time stamps for the video stream together with an audio stream that includes presentation time stamps for the audio stream in a manner that modifies the presentation time stamps for the video stream in a manner such that a plurality ...