ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,585, issued on April 8, was assigned to Scorpcast LLC (Leander, Texas).

"Interactive video distribution system and video player utilizing a client server architecture" was invented by Narbeh Avedissian (Encino, Calif.) and Nikhil Sreenath (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interactive video distribution system and video player are described. A client server arrangement may be used for providing a video player and video content to a client device. The video player may display navigation images enabling navigation to specific portions of the video content by activating a corresponding navigation image. The video player m...