US Patent Issued to Google on Jan. 13 for "Authorizing usage of media content of a content owner by other content creators" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,748, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Authorizing usage of media content of a content owner by other content creators" was invented by Henry Scott Dlhopolsky (Zurich, Switzerland) and David Griesbach (Pacifica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating a first media item identifier for a first media item of a first media item owner, the first media item being associated with one or more media usage options. The method further includes generating, for each of the one or more media usage options, a media usage option identifier. The method further includes receiving a medi...