US Patent Issued to TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEM on Aug. 19 for "Client-side overlay of graphic items on media content" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,702, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEM INC. (Atlanta).

"Client-side overlay of graphic items on media content" was invented by Donald Jude Loheide (Mableton, Ga.), Matthew Paul Giles (Marietta, Ga.), Gregory McClain Stigall (Douglasville, Ga.), Nishith Kumar Sinha (Mableton, Ga.), Cindy Loren Campbell (Atlanta), James J Arnzen (Atlanta) and Nicolas Paul Webb (McDonough, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system that identifies a tag in a media content of a media stream based on a user-attribute of a client device. A candidate time-period is identified in a playback duration of the media conte...