ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,100, issued on April 21, was assigned to Tubi Inc. (San Francisco).
"Advertisement break detection" was invented by Amir Mazaheri (Mountain View, Calif.), John Trenkle (Albany, Calif.), Jaya Kawale (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin Edward Corcoran (Media, Pa.) and Dennis Paul Yost (Salado, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for ad break detection, including: a computer processor; a scene break detection service executing on the computer processor and comprising functionality to (i) receive a request for ad break detection on a media item, (ii) perform audio break detection on an audio component of the media item to obt...