ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,226, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Resource-efficient delivery of relevant content" was invented by Kumar Rishabh (Redmond, Wash.), Wei Huang (Kirkland, Wash.) and Zhenyu Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for resource-efficient delivery of relevant content are described. User segments for a video can be identified based on user segments assigned to users that previously watched the video and a measure of users that have been assigned the user segment. For each user segment, a level of seman...