Patents Assigned to Spherex, Inc.
  • Patent number: 12219210
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein support or provide for cultural distance prediction operations of a media asset, such as determining events in a media asset, determining geographical region corresponding to the culture of origin and the culture of destination, accessing weight values of cultural attribute categories respectively associated with the geographical regions of the culture of origin and the culture of destination, generating cultural distance score of events, and causing display of the cultural distance score on a user interface of a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SPHEREX, INC.
    Inventors: Teresa Ann Phillips, Pranav Anand Joshi, Kira Michelle McStay
  • Patent number: 12131538
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein support or provide for annotation of a media asset, such as an audio asset or a video asset, based on one or more events identified within content of the media asset. In particular, some embodiments can determine one or more of the following details with respect to content of a given media asset, which can represent annotations that enable determination of contextual information for the given media asset: events; event classification labels for events; subclassifications labels for events; scenes comprising events; attributes of scenes; themes presented by the content; and title-level attributes of the given media asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SPHEREX, INC.
    Inventors: Teresa Ann Phillips, Pranav Anand Joshi, Kira Michelle McStay
  • Patent number: 11917245
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein support or provide for cultural distance prediction operations of a media asset, such as determining events in a media asset, determining geographical region corresponding to the culture of origin and the culture of destination, accessing weight values of cultural attribute categories respectively associated with the geographical regions of the culture of origin and the culture of destination, generating cultural distance score of events, and causing display of the cultural distance score on a user interface of a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SPHEREX, INC.
    Inventors: Teresa Ann Phillips, Pranav Anand Joshi, Kira Michelle McStay
  • Patent number: 11776261
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein support or provide for annotation of a media asset, such as an audio asset or a video asset, based on one or more events identified within content of the media asset. In particular, some embodiments can determine one or more of the following details with respect to content of a given media asset, which can represent annotations that enable determination of contextual information for the given media asset: events; event classification labels for events; subclassifications labels for events; scenes comprising events; attributes of scenes; themes presented by the content; and title-level attributes of the given media asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SPHEREX, INC.
    Inventors: Teresa Ann Phillips, Pranav Anand Joshi, Kira Michelle McStay
  • Patent number: 11729473
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein support or provide for predicting a rating for a media asset for one geographic region based on a reference rating of the media asset for another geographic region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SPHEREX, INC.
    Inventors: Teresa Ann Phillips, Pranav Anand Joshi, Kira Michelle McStay
  • Patent number: 11523181
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein support or provide for cultural distance prediction operations of a media asset, such as determining events in a media asset, determining geographical region corresponding to the culture of origin and the culture of destination, accessing weight values of cultural attribute categories respectively associated with the geographical regions of the culture of origin and the culture of destination, generating cultural distance score of events, and causing display of the cultural distance score on a user interface of a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SPHEREX, INC.
    Inventors: Teresa Ann Phillips, Pranav Anand Joshi, Kira Michelle McStay
  • Patent number: 11399214
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein support or provide for predicting a rating for a media asset for one geographic region based on a reference rating of the media asset for another geographic region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SPHEREX, INC.
    Inventors: Teresa Ann Phillips, Pranav Anand Joshi, Kira Michelle McStay
  • Patent number: 4108497
    Abstract: Hub cap in the form of a cup-like cap having laterally notched fingers extending from the skirt for engagement with the spokes of a wheel and having a transversely-slidable internal locking plate for engagement with a notched axle to assemble axle, cap, and wheel together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1978
    Assignee: Spherex, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce N. Smith
  • Patent number: 3994767
    Abstract: Apparatus for forming annular articles from elongated workpieces of thermoplastic material is provided with clamps for grasping the ends of the workpiece, and a heating plate with two opposed surfaces; the clamps apply the ends of the workpiece to the plate to heat them and then bring the ends together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1976
    Assignee: Spherex, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce N. Smith
  • Patent number: D256931
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1980
    Assignee: Spherex, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce N. Smith