US Patent Issued to ADEIA GUIDES on Aug. 5 for "Methods and systems for encouraging behaviour while occupying vehicles" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,249, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for encouraging behaviour while occupying vehicles" was invented by William L. Thomas (Evergreen, Colo.), Paul T. Stathacopoulos (San Carlos, Calif.) and Danielle Gonzalez (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed herein for encouraging particular behavior while occupying vehicles. For example, by granting and restricting access to media and other user comfort devices based on whether or not a user is conforming to a predetermined rule set, the media guidance application may encourage a user to ...