US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Dec. 23 for "Systems, methods, and devices for determining viewership data" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,931, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems, methods, and devices for determining viewership data" was invented by Christopher Paul Whitely (Summit, N.J.) and Zhao Xing (Livingston, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices relating to determining viewership data are described herein. In a method, viewing data associated with a household is received. A first portion of the viewing data is indicative of video programming associated with a first video device and a second portion of the viewing data is indicative of video programming associated with a second v...