ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,936, issued on May 20, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and media for detecting a presentation of media content on a display device" was invented by Zbigniew Skolicki (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and media for detecting a presentation of media content on a display device are provided. In accordance with some implementations, methods for detecting a presentation of media content on a display device are provided, the methods comprising: detecting, using a light sensor, light levels in the light sensor's surroundings; generating a signal representing the light lev...