US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Dec. 9 for "Systems, methods, and devices for household classification" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,174, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems, methods, and devices for household classification" 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: "A group of households associated with known content viewing behavior may be determined. The group of households may be compared to at least one household with unknown content viewing behavior, based on a plurality of characteristics. Based on the comparison, a subset of the group of households that is associated with characteristics most similar to characteristics associa...