ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,792, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Confirming remote consumer recording propagation to live event" was invented by Prasanna Alur Mathada (Bangalore, India), Srini Bhagavan (Dublin, Calif.), Thuan D Ngo (Milpitas, Calif.) and Hrishikesh Sujaya Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for propagating a recording are provided. A recording is received from a user computer. The received recording is analyzed. In response to determining based upon the analysis of the received recording that at least a portion of...