ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. RE50,478, issued on July 1, was assigned to Nytell Software LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"System and method for providing sequential video and interactive content" was invented by Bradley G. Johnson (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Simon A. Assaad (Far Hills, N.J.), David V. Carson (Westport, Conn.) and John S. Penberthy (Croton on Hudson, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of providing sequential video and contextual based content to an end user viewing video content in a video player on an end user computing device is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises storing a plurality of videos in a memory, storing a plurality of advert...