ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,504, issued on April 29, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for automatically detecting users within detection regions of media devices" was invented by Camron Shimy (Canyon Country, Calif.) and Benjamin Kim (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented for detecting users within a range of a media device. A detection region may be defined that is within the range of the media device and smaller than the range. The detection region may be stored. It may be determined whether a user is within the detection region. The media device may be activated and settings asso...