ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,405, issued on April 22, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).

"Adaptive content delivery network" was invented by Gaurav Mittal (London), Simone Ferrara (London) and Guido Meardi (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content delivery network (100) for streaming digital video content across a data network. The content delivery network (100) is configured to receive digital video content. The content delivery network is configured to store the digital video content in a storage format comprising a base layer (B) and an enhancement layer (E), wherein the base layer (B) is decodable to present the digital video content a...