ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,068, issued on March 25, was assigned to mmhmm inc. (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Adaptive audio for enhancing individual and group consumption of immersive asynchronous audio-video content" was invented by Phil Libin (Bentonville, Ark.) and Leonid Kitainik (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing a shared experience of a pre-recorded video content on video screens of devices of a plurality of participants includes presenting, on the video screens, video content corresponding to the pre-recorded video having superimposed thereon a live video feed, determining feedback of the participants to the video content, providing to ...