ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,263, issued on March 3, was assigned to Turner Broadcasting System Inc. (Atlanta).

"Dynamic scheduling and channel creation based on external data" was invented by Donald Jude Loheide (Mableton, Ga.), Carlos Jorge M Monteiro (Smyrna, Ga.), Nishith Kumar Sinha (Mableton, Ga.), Nicolas Paul Webb (McDonough, Ga.), James J. Arnzen (Atlanta) and Mark Cooper Pope V (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided that determines a media item for an insertion in a first media feed of a first channel based on at least a pre-encoded media content, metadata related to the pre-encoded media content, and audience-based parameters. Th...