US Patent Issued to Google on April 15 for "Promoted content selection and delivery in a television platform" (California, New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,014, issued on April 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Promoted content selection and delivery in a television platform" was invented by Rashmi Murthy (Saratoga, Calif.), Matthew Ross (San Francisco), Jimmy Justin Glenn Chua Lo (Dublin, Calif.), Sri Chaitanya Kamisetty (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kaichi Zhou (Torrance, Calif.), Donato Borrello (Jersey City, N.J.), Neil Mitan Gandhi (Dublin, Calif.) and Igor Fradlis (Woodmere, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a method includes executing a streaming application configured to stream a media content item on a display of a television device, and receivin...