ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,895, issued on May 27, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Data translation for video-viewing activity" was invented by Robert Alan Orlowski (Centennial, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatuses are described for using Linear, DVR, and VOD video viewing activity data for more efficient downstream processing to create analytical studies of second-by-second viewing activity for program, channel, house, device, viewer, demographic, and geographic attributes. Such attributes may be determined for one or more viewing devices. Attributes associated with different viewing devices ma...