ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,781, issued on July 21, was assigned to ThinkAnalytics Ltd. (Glasgow, Great Britain).

"Managing feature distribution" was invented by Peter Docherty (Glasgow, Great Britain), Christopher McGuire (Glasgow, Great Britain), Ewen Cattanach (Glasgow, Great Britain), Darren Callaghan (Glasgow, Great Britain) and Georgios Mamakis (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing feature distribution in content of a content catalog for a content distribution system having a plurality of users is provided. The method comprises taking corrective action responsive to determining that a number of content items in a cont...