US Patent Issued to Warner Bros. Entertainment on Nov. 25 for "Simple nonautonomous peering media clone detection" (Oregon, California, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,729, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Simple nonautonomous peering media clone detection" was invented by Aaron Marking (Portland, Ore.), Kenneth Goeller (Los Angeles) and Jeffrey Bruce Lotspiech (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A playback device includes a port configured to receive content from an external memory device, a device memory residing in the device, and a controller programmed to execute instructions that cause the controller to read a read data pattern from the defined region in the external memory device and determine if the read data pattern correlat...