ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,613, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Pleora Technologies Inc. (Kanata, Canada).

"Scalable decentralized media distribution" was invented by Chris Eric Warkentin (Ottawa), Jonathan Chapman Hou (Stittsville, Canada), Robert Turzo (Ottawa), Thomas Madgett (Kanata, Canada), James Daniel Falconer (Bavaria, Germany) and Yury Velikzhanin (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are various embodiments of decentralized media distribution systems, devices and methods over a scalable local network. Embodiments relate to scalable media distribution amongst media data components comprising at least one media acquisition...