ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,471, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Advertisement exposure management" was invented by Kan Xu (Beijing), Wenyuan Zhang (Beijing), Xue Zhang (Beijing), Qiang Wang (Beijing) and Yun Su (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for adjusted exposure threshold values. Each user may be associated with one or more of a plurality of exposure threshold values, for example, a frequency cap value, that may be a cap (e.g., threshold) on the number of times a repeat advertisement content may be output to a user. Exposure threshold values may be mo...