US Patent Issued to DIRECTV on Feb. 3 for "Methods and apparatus to detect dynamic ad insertion misalignment" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,935, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DIRECTV LLC (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to detect dynamic ad insertion misalignment" was invented by Connie Cuiyuan He (San Gabriel, Calif.), Tristan Neima Arian (Houston), Navyata Sree Awasthi (Austin, Texas) and Rainier Sumalde Mendoza (Duarte, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed. An example apparatus to identify advertisement misalignment, the apparatus comprising: interface circuitry; machine-readable instructions; and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine-readable ...