US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP, SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT on July 22 for "Distribution backbone" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,236, issued on July 22, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Culver City, Calif.).

"Distribution backbone" was invented by Rick Dinicola (La Crescenta, Calif.), David Rosen (Santa Monica, Calif.), Ryan Kido (Westlake Village, Calif.), Tatsuya Oiye (Los Angeles) and Keith Stevens (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digitally distributing media content using a distribution backbone system, including: receiving a request for media content from a client, the request including a client profile; performing inventory and analysis of source assets by iteratively progressing through the client...