ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,394, issued on March 17, was assigned to Warner Media LLC (New York).

"Method and apparatus to profile account credential sharing" was invented by Zhengyi Zhou (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Deirdre Paul (Barrington, R.I.), Rakhi Seth-Forrest (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Olivia Hong (Bridgewater, N.J.), Sanjeev Misra (Somerset, N.J.), Appavu Siva Prakasam (New Providence, N.J.), Ann Eileen Skudlark (San Ramon, Calif.) and Christopher Volinsky (Morristown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system or method that determines, based on consumption data and location information, groups of access po...