US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Sept. 9 for "Viewer reaction detection and content control" (Pennsylvania, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,812, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Viewer reaction detection and content control" was invented by Mary Cyriac (Warwick, Pa.) and Christopher Day (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for detecting the reactions of primary and secondary viewers of content are described. Reactions of a primary or secondary viewer of content may be detected through use of a sensor and machine learning model. Based on the reaction of the primary or secondary viewer satisfying some criteria, outputting of the content may be modified and/or alternative content may be...