ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,400, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Loop Now Technologies Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Livestream with synthetic scene insertion" was invented by Hong-Ming Tseng (Toronto), Edwin Chiu (Cupertino, Calif.), Wu-Hsi Li (Somerville, Mass.), Jerry Ting Kwan Luk (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Jeremiah Kevin Tu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for livestream with synthetic scene insertion. A prerecorded livestream featuring a host is rendered to one or more viewers. An operator accesses a video segment related to the prerecorded livestream. The related video segment includes a performan...