ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,535, issued on April 1, was assigned to SnifferCat Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Systems and methods for dynamic stitching of advertisements in live stream content" was invented by Thomas Hamilton Link (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Receiving a first portion of a live stream of a content item being either prerecorded or being captured from a live event, the content item comprising or to comprise a set of stream-enabled video segments, the first portion of the live stream comprising a first subset of stream-enabled video segments. Identifying insertion point(s) within at least one stream-enabled video segment. Generating a fi...