ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,261, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimizing carbon emissions from streaming platforms with artificial intelligence based model" was invented by Divgian Sidhu (Mohali, India), Ayush Jain (Lucknow, India), Smitkumar Narotambhai Marvaniya (Bangalore, India) and Sujoy Kumar Roy Chowdhury (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media is streamed in accordance with carbon footprint considerations. A streaming history of a streaming plan is analyzed to determine a historical carbon footprint. At least one streaming plan is presented that includes target carbon footprint rela...