ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,276, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Integral Ad Science Inc. (New York).

"Methods, systems, and media for identifying automatically refreshed advertisements" was invented by Daniel Nicholas Hill (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Kiril Tsemekhman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and media for identifying automatically refreshed advertisements are provided. In some embodiments, a method for modifying advertisement spending is provided, the method comprising: receiving advertisement delivery information associated with a plurality of advertisements displayed on a web page; generating a distribution of an amount of ti...