ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,159, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for updating search results based on a conversation" was invented by John Blake (Belmont, Calif.), Paul Stathacopoulos (San Carlos, Calif.) and William L. Thomas (Evergreen, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for updating search results based on a user's comment or a conversation among users using a media guidance application. A set of search results may be presented to a user or users. Comments or a conversation about the search results may be analyzed by the media guidance application. Select...