ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,187, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Streampipe Corp. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for media-linked transactions concurrent with media playback" was invented by Daniel Christopher Augustine (Savannah, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for enabling a media-linked transaction concurrently with playback of media, an exemplary method comprising: connecting a media platform to a multi-layered model comprising a transaction layer, video layer, and device layer running in parallel on separate processor platforms; platforming the media, including preparing th...