ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,647, issued on May 13, was assigned to OpenExchange Inc. (Boston).

"Automatic discovery and reporting of streaming content of interest and connection of user to same" was invented by Michael E. Kolowich (Quechee, Vt.) and Alexander J. Kieft (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to computer systems and methods that stream selected media content to a client device. Selection of particular content to stream to a device of a given user is performed based on parameters specified in advance by the given user. Selection is made from received content that is parsed, indexed, and stored in real-time in such...