ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,905, issued on May 27, was assigned to JBF Interlude 2009 LTD (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Systems and methods for seamless audio and video endpoint transitions" was invented by Tal Zubalsky (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Jonathan Bloch (Ramat HaSharon, Israel), Yuval Hofshy (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Barak Feldman (Tenafly, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide for seamless audio, video, and contextual transitions in interactive media presentations, endpoints within the presentation are defined. The endpoints are disposed at different times within the presentation and form respective links between points in segments in the presentation. While the ...