ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,375, issued on March 24, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Content validation using scene modification" was invented by Ehsan Younessian (Washington) and Renxiang Li (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for managing content. A content stream may be generated based on source content. Scenes identified in the content stream may be compared with scenes in the source content. An iterative matching process may be used to modify scene boundaries that may be compared to the scene boundaries of the content stream."

The patent was filed on April 15, 2021, under A...