ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,737, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Tubi Inc. (San Francisco).
"Media channel layout evaluation" was invented by Kevin Edward Corcoran (Media, Pa.), Dennis Paul Yost (Salado, Texas), Ashley Leigh Hall (Bellefonte, Pa.), Christopher Thomas Sloan (Cedar Park, Texas) and Xugang Yu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for channel layout evaluation including: a computer processor and a channel detective service executing on the computer processor and including functionality to: receive a request to perform channel layout evaluation on a media item including a provided set of channels; perform metadata extraction...