ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,255, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for enhancing group media consumption sessions" was invented by Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.) and Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for initiating a media content item group watch session with an identified contact. A user profile is identified, and a media content item is generated for output at a first computing device. A contact is identified based on the user profile and the media content item, and an invitation to join a media content item group session is generated based on t...