ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,126, issued on Oct. 7.
"Automatically paying a recipient by presenting privately filtered content combined with a public broadcast" was invented by Timothy Joseph Erskine (Sister Bay, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method including a plurality of device controllers, wherein each device controller is connectable to a network and is configured to integrate with a hardware device adapted to output an AV (audio and/or video) content item, and wherein each device controller includes a system for generating response data that chronologically relates a user input to the AV content item, including an interface associated wit...