ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,211, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Classifying parental rating for better viewing experience" was invented by Rohit Dhiman (Uttarakhand, India), Ashish Gupta (Karnataka, India), Vaibhav Gupta (Karnataka, India), Senthil Kumar Karuppasamy (Bangalore, India) and Anil Kumar (Haryana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to limiting viewing of media content. More particularly, the present invention relates to classifying segments of content for limited viewing based on user preferences and classifications.According to a first aspect, there is provided a method for p...