ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,944, issued on May 13, was assigned to iSpot.tv Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"System and method for continuous play quantification" was invented by Nicole Lawless-DesJardins (Portland, Ore.), Sean Muller (Bellevue, Wash.), Michael Bardaro (Snoqualmie, Wash.) and Marc Boyer (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided in an exemplary embodiment and may include receiving a device status feed and receiving a content impression feed via a processor. The device status feed includes device status elements associated with a display device and the content impression feed includes content impression ele...