ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,419, issued on April 22, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Live stream event management systems and methods" was invented by Anthony Delserro (Orange, Calif.), Anbazhagan Palani (Somerset, N.J.), David Skuratowicz (Felton, Calif.) and Mahabaleshwar Bhat (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative system includes a memory that stores instructions and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to execute the instructions to perform a process. The process may comprise monitoring audience engagement of a plurality of audience members with respect to the a ...