ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,997, issued on May 27, was assigned to LiveArena Technologies AB (Stockholm).

"System and method for producing a video stream" was invented by Andreas Bjorkman (Taby, Sweden), Anders Nilsson (Falkoping, Sweden) and Lars Erlman (Leksand, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, system and computer program product for providing a second digital video stream. In a collecting step, a first and a second primary digital video stream are collected from at least two different digital video sources. In a first production step, a first produced video stream is produced based on the first and second primary streams. In a second production ...