ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,347, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MK Systems USA Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for reduced latency streaming" was invented by Richard Fliam (Wilmington, Del.) and Cory Zachman (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and devices transmitting live content. There is provided a first delivery path for streaming live content data, without packet reordering, to a player device, and a second delivery path for streaming recorded content data to the player, wherein the system is configured to transition from the first delivery path to the second delivery path in response to a seek...