ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,325, issued on June 17, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for just-in-time streaming media" was invented by Daniel Dennedy (Oceanside, Calif.), Rahul Iyengar (Union City, Calif.) and Cedric Fernandes (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for just-in-time streaming media. Existing content delivery networks are optimized for providing mass media to many consumers. This delivery model is poorly suited to user-specific content. Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure create a program instance that can service a client's media requests from their archival data....