ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. RE50,541, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

"Method and system for transmitting a multimedia stream" was invented by Hans Maarten Stokking (The Hague, Netherlands), Mattijs Oskar Van Deventer (Leidschendam, Netherlands), Fabian Arthur Walraven (Groningen, Netherlands) and Omar Aziz Niamut (Vlaardingen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for transmitting a multimedia stream from a first terminal and receiving an associated second multimedia stream at a second terminal. The first and second terminal are connected to at least one gateway for enabling the transmission...