US Patent Issued to Turner Broadcasting System on July 1 for "Providing media content to content consumers for playback and consumption" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,819, issued on July 1, was assigned to Turner Broadcasting System Inc. (Atlanta).

"Providing media content to content consumers for playback and consumption" was invented by Nicolas Paul Webb (McDonough, Ga.) and Nishith Kumar Sinha (Mableton, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided that includes a plurality of nodes and a plurality of instances of a distributed media rights transaction ledger associated with the plurality of the nodes. The plurality of nodes includes a first node associated with a first participant and a second node associated with a second participant. The first node interacts with the second node ba...