US Patent Issued to SPHEREX on July 28 for "Cultural distance prediction system for media asset" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,948, issued on July 28, was assigned to SPHEREX INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cultural distance prediction system for media asset" was invented by Teresa Ann Phillips (Los Altos, Calif.), Pranav Anand Joshi (Cerritos, Calif.) and Kira Michelle McStay (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein support or provide for cultural distance prediction operations of a media asset, such as determining events in a media asset, determining geographical region corresponding to the culture of origin and the culture of destination, accessing weight values of cultural attribute categories respectively associated ...