US Patent Issued to TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEM on Oct. 28 for "Automatic content recognition and verification in a broadcast chain" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,381, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEM INC. (Atlanta).

"Automatic content recognition and verification in a broadcast chain" was invented by Gregory McClain Stigall (Douglasville, Ga.) and Nishith Kumar Sinha (Mableton, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics verification system that handles content of a channel in a broadcast chain, partitions an on-screen view of the channel into a plurality of sections based on an overlay of a plurality of graphics on the on-screen view of the channel. The content may comprise media content and may include video, audio and/or ancillary data that is associated with...