ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,820, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HULU LLC (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Pull notifications for applications" was invented by Josh Stratton (Issaquah, Wash.), Tiffany Jiang (White Plains, N.Y.), Elise Wang (Cerritos, Calif.), Ariela Ninka (Santa Monica, Calif.), Mingkui Liu (Playa Vista, Calif.), Zhuofeng Wu (Los Angeles), Suneeta Puranik (Los Angeles), Andres Montano (Seattle), Austin Wignall (Los Angeles), Jillian Abeyta (Los Angeles), Josh Nelson (Woodland Hills, Calif.), Andrew Salituri (Seattle) and Dominic Hopton (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method receives a plurality of pull notifica...