US Patent Issued to ARRIS Enterprises on March 18 for "Synchronized playback controls for parallel viewing of video content" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,127, issued on March 18, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Synchronized playback controls for parallel viewing of video content" was invented by Ramesh Narayanaswamy (Karnataka, India) and Praveen Girish (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a system are disclosed for synchronized playback controls for viewing of video content. The method includes connecting, to a synchronization service, a plurality of media consumption devices; receiving, on the synchronization service, a control request from one or more of the plurality of media consumption d...