ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,104, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for leveraging machine learning for improving and enhancing DVR services" was invented by Johan Kolhi (Vaxholm, Sweden), Anthony Friede (Upplands Vasby, Sweden) and Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media stream is accessed, and a classification model is selected for identifying objects in the media stream. Using the classification model, it is determined whether a content item of interest to the user is currently being received in the media stream. If the content item is currently being received in the media s...