ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,230, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LiveArena Technologies AB (Stockholm).

"System and method for producing a video stream" was invented by Magnus Danielson (Sollentuna, Sweden), Paul Van Den Haak (Bunnik, Netherlands) and Andreas Bjorkman (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems, including computer software products, for providing a shared digital video stream. Primary digital video streams are collected from at least two digital video sources. The primary streams are individually analysed to detect at least one event. The primary streams are time-synchronised with respect to a common time reference. The ti...