ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,754, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to FreeWheel Media Inc. (Philadelphia).

"Systems, methods and computer-readable media for local content storage within a media network" was invented by Seth Haberman (New York) and Gerrit Niemeijer (Maplewood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media for storing or caching targeted content on a receiver device using existing bandwidth within a media network are described. For example, unused bandwidth within a transport stream may be detected and targeted content may be inserted into the transport stream within the unused bandwidth. The targeted cont...