ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,669, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NAGRAVISION SARL (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Techniques for providing a content stream based on a delivered stream of content" was invented by Patricia Fieldhouse (Weston-Super-Mare, Great Britain), Ben Lavery-Griffiths (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland) and David Price (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing a content stream based on capturing an initial delivery of the content stream. The method comprises obtaining manifest data related to the initial delivery of the content stream, the manifest data being obtained one or more time...