ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,406, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Pluto Inc. (West Hollywood, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for streaming video analysis" was invented by Steven Ernest Riedl (Atlanta), Upendra Mohan Sharma (West Hollywood, Calif.), Terrence Mullane Jr. (Seattle), Kevin Liu (Culver City, Calif.) and Mahavir Chowbay Baboolall (West Hollywood, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the disclosure is related to methods and systems configured to detect an item of ancillary video content, the item of ancillary video content comprising video frames and an audio track. A first portion of the item of ancillary video content comprising vid...