US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises on March 24 for "Artificially intelligent ad-break prediction" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,693, issued on March 24, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Artificially intelligent ad-break prediction" was invented by Taryn Nihei (New York), Giuseppe Manzari (Sunland, Calif.), Monica Alfaro Vendrell (Barcelona, Spain), Francesc Josep Guitart Bravo (Lleida, Spain), Daniel Brooks (Pasadena, Calif.), Brian Coburn (Burbank, Calif.) and Anthony M. Accardo (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a hardware processor and a memory storing software code. The software code is executed to receive media content including a video and an audio component, recognize the media content as ad-slugge...