US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for managing access to media assets based on a projected location of a user" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,639, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for managing access to media assets based on a projected location of a user" was invented by Michael R. Nichols (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.) and Sally Cook (San Jose, 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 allows access restrictions to be modified in a flexible manner based on a deviation in a user's projected location. Specifically, the media guidance application determines at an end of a first time period whether a user is in a projected location for a sec...