ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,121, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for linking segments of media guidance data for efficient operation of memory constrained devices" was invented by Michael McCarty (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Mikhail Aksenfeld (Castaic, Calif.), Vazrik Israelian (Glendale, Calif.), Glen E. Roe (Simi Valley, Calif.), Corey Tulis (Portland, Ore.) and David Wittke (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generating segmented media asset identifiers are described herein. The method includes retrieving a first media guidance data segment of a plurality of medi...