ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,836, issued on April 21, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Video engagement determination based on statistical positional object tracking" was invented by Anubhav Srivastava (Bengaluru, India), Chinmay Bharadwaj (Bengaluru, India), Gopinath Ramananda (Bengaluru, India), Sabyasachi Paul (Bengaluru, India) and Mahima Rao K (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and method for video engagement determination based on statistical positional object tracking is provided. The electronic device receives media content including a set of video frames based on a content playability factor and detects a se...