ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,473, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ADAP.TV INC. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Displaying web page advertisements in online video players" was invented by Trond Erling Grenager (Dulles, Va.), Daniel Louis Klein (Dulles, Va.) and Amir Ashkenazi (Dulles, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Many conventional advertisements designed for display as part of a web page executed by a web browser are not suitable for display in an online video player that, though included in a web page, is executed by a multimedia platform. Such conventional advertisements are referred to herein as web page advertisements. A system display a web page advertisement...