ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,523, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and media for timing presentation of content" was invented by Chetan Pitambar Bhole (San Mateo, Calif.), Tanmay Khirwadkar (San Francisco), Deepak Ramamurthi Sivaramapuram Chandrasekaran (San Jose, Calif.) and Sanjay Mangla (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and media for timing presentation of content are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: causing a first video content item to be presented on a user device of a user; wherein the video content item is provided by a video sharing service; identi...