ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,776, issued on July 29, was assigned to ClearPlay Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Method and system for midstream filtering of audio and video content" was invented by Matt Jarman (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method for filtering streaming media content includes receiving at a filtering device one or more packets of a source data stream. The one or more packets are may be received from a content source remote from the filtering device. The source data stream may include one or more of an audio component and a video component. The method further includes determining whether to perform a filtering action ...