ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,770, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Automatic generation of video content in response to network interruption" was invented by Liangping Ma (San Diego), Thomas Stockhammer (Bergen, Germany), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Nikolai Konrad Leung (San Francisco) and Imed Bouazizi (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device for presenting media data includes a memory configured to store media data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: receive a first set of media data of a media bitstream; in response to determining that a second set of media data of...