ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,274, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to WarnerMedia Direct LLC (New York).

"Content distribution and optimization system and method for deriving new metrics and multiple use cases of data consumers using base event metrics" was invented by Serhii Kozak (Anderson Island, Wash.), Pam McCormack (Bellevue, Wash.), Nicolas Webb (Bothell, Wash.), Jiming Ye (Seattle), Elias Mendel (Seattle), Agnelo D'costa (Redmond, Wash.), Aeden Jameson (Seattle), Jing Yang (Bothell, Wash.), Chase Meador (Sammamish, Wash.), Brandon Sislow (Seattle) and Bradley C LeRoss (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a content distribution and opt...