ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,462, issued on June 10, was assigned to DISH Network Technologies India Private Ltd. (Bangalore, India).

"Media session management" was invented by Gajanan Hegde (Uttara Kannada, India), Suhas Nayak (Bangalore, India) and Amey Shirali (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a computer that is programmed to receive one or more media streams, each from a respective one of a one or more media capture devices, and to receive, from a client device, for each of the one or more media streams, state data including at least one of an active and a potential state of the media stream. The computer is further programme...