ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,215, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for displaying subjects of a video portion of content" was invented by Gabriel C Dalbec (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Nicholas Lovell (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Lance G. O'Connor (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for displaying subjects of a portion of content. Media data of content is analyzed during playback, and a number of action signatures are identified. Each action signature is associated with a particular subject within the content. The action signature is stored, along with a times...