ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,987, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SKY ITALIA S.r.l. (Milan).

"Method, device, system, program for computer and medium for program for generating a streaming linear channel (streaming linear channel)" was invented by Gabriele Ubertini (Milan) and Davide Gandino (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed that generates a streaming linear channel reproduction list, the list a including a first streaming linear channel segment identifier and a second streaming linear channel segment identifier each identifying, respectively, a first and a second audiovisual streaming linear channel segment and obtained on the basis...