US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for optimizing content viewing using digital rights of multiple users" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,091, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for optimizing content viewing using digital rights of multiple users" was invented by Kevin Bruce Lenhart (Campbell, Calif.), Sean Matthews (Los Altos, Calif.) and Benjamin Holms Maughan (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for enabling multiple users' digital rights to be applied as needed to access media while those users are present to consume media. In particular, a media guidance application may receive a selection of a media asset and determine that the user equipment device ...