ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,828, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to RIEDEL.WTF GMBH (Berlin).

"Method and computing device for intervening access to a target media service" was invented by Frederik Riedel (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method to intervene access to a target media service requested by a user as well as a computing device including processor and memory. The computing device includes computer-executable program instructions that, when executed by the computing device, performs one or more methods to intervene access to a target media service requested by a user."

The patent was filed...