ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,376, issued on July 15, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for identifying and storing a portion of a media asset" was invented by Paul Maltar (Los Angeles), Milan Patel (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yong Gong (West Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for a media guidance application that can cause a specific portion of a media asset to be stored based on a user command. For example, if the user requests the closing scene from a given movie, the media guidance application may detect the command, determine that it comprises an instruction to store a ...