Technology start-ups love to wax lyrical about their many pending patent applications. Some never float, but those that return home after years at sea are cause for innovation celebration. One area of patented technologies we have seldom covered is advertising, which is why an announcement from ad tech vendor tvScientific grabbed our attention. tvScientific has successfully patented a technology for automatically optimizing TV ads to meet advertiser goals, claiming that the invention is set to radically and positively disrupt the TV ad marketplace via two concepts – democratized access, and outcome measurement/optimization. With California-based tvScientific listing NBCUniversal’s Peacock among its customer (and investor) base, as well as dabbling with divisive TV slinger Free Telly, the vendor’s patented algorithms are likely…