US Patent Issued to Mux on July 8 for "Methods for media playback error detection and error mitigation" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,030, issued on July 8, was assigned to Mux Inc. (San Francisco).

"Methods for media playback error detection and error mitigation" was invented by Adam Brown (Orinda, Calif.), Christian Pillsbury (Los Angeles), Dylan Jhaveri (San Diego) and George Katsevman (Chestnut Hill, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: accessing a set of errors occurring during playback of segments of a video in a first rendition within a device population during a first time period and, during a subsequent time period, in response to receiving a first request for a first segment of the video in the first rendition: deriving, from the set of ...