ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,047, issued on April 14, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Just in time content conditioning" was invented by Andrew Morrow (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive a manifest that identifies a plurality of content fragments associated with a content asset. The device may receive or access instructions for inserting secondary content into a location of the content asset that does not align with the boundaries between the content fragments. Based on the received instructions, the playback device may generate updated manifest information that identifies a first modified content fragme...