ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,755, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to INSCAPE DATA INC. (Irvine, Calif.).

"System and method for improving work load management in ACR television monitoring system" was invented by Zeev Neumeier (Berkeley, Calif.) and Michael Collette (San Rafael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Resource utilization of an automated content recognition (ACR) system can be optimized by delaying the identification of certain large quantities of media cue data. The delayed identification of the media may be for the purpose of, for example, generating usage statistics or other non-time critical work flow, among other non-real-time uses. In additio...