ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,913, issued on May 27, was assigned to Turner Broadcasting System Inc. (Atlanta).

"Dynamic verification of playback of media assets at client device" 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: "A media presentation and distribution system includes a verification server that handles dynamic verification of playback of media assets on a client device. The client device generates support ...