ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,704, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Content synchronization using micro-seeking" was invented by Matthew McDade Jackson (Denver) and Matthew Patrick Creehan (Littleton, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed maintaining playback of content at a target or desired playback time. A playback device may be configured to compare a current playback time of a content asset to a target playback time of the content asset and to determine, for each comparison, whether a difference between the current playback time and the target playback time has reached a t...