ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,914, issued on March 25, was assigned to Topia Interactive Inc. (Indio, Calif.).

"Mixed peer-to-peer mesh and forwarding system" was invented by Chris Psiaki (Indio, Calif.) and Daniel Liebeskind (Indio, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process that includes establishing, with a first client computing device, a first peer-to-peer connection with a second client computing device. The process further includes determining, with the first client computing device, that a first media stream provided by the first client computing device satisfies at least one selective forwarding unit streaming condition, and providing, with the fir...