ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,601, issued on April 8, was assigned to Infrared5 Inc. (Jamaica Plain, Mass.).

"Live video streaming architecture with real-time frame and subframe level live watermarking" was invented by Davide Lucchi (Boston), Chris Allen (Jamaica Plain, Mass.) and Alexander Solonsky (Tomsk, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A live media streaming architecture with real-time live watermarking wherein watermarks are added at a frame or subframe level. The architecture can use a UDP/WebRTC architecture, without requiring a content delivery network, which is not dependent on transmitting media by segments, thus allowing insertion of the watermark...