ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,408, issued on April 22, was assigned to Twitch Interactive Inc. (San Francisco).

"Distributed dynamic content restriction system" was invented by Remi Kaan Uzel (London), Randeep S Bhatia (Berkeley, Calif.) and Christopher Renshaw Fortier (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content management system is provided to provide dynamic identification, selection, and application of content restriction response actions to streaming content. Portions of streaming content may be associated with a restriction regarding usage of the portion in the streaming content. As a content creator is generating a stream of content, a content ma...