ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,854, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for generating cluster-based search results" was invented by Milan Patel (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a media guidance application that intuitively and efficiently allows a user to navigate a large amount of media content on a variety of user devices. Specifically, the media guidance application may provide a user with cluster-based search results. The media guidance application may intelligently select the clusters presented to a user, and attributes of those clusters,...