ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,159, issued on May 20, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Predictive media caching" was invented by Stefan Moro (Trautskirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for predicting media caching include determining likelihoods that given media content items currently displayed on a user interface will be selected by a user for output of the media content items by a client device. The likelihoods are compared and for the media content item or group of media content items with the greatest likelihood of being selected, at least a portion of the media content item or group of media content items are cach...