ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,768, issued on July 29, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Key event trick-play operation" was invented by Padmassri Chandrashekar (Karnataka, India), Diana Emmanuel (Karnataka, India) and Cato Yang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented herein for generating at least one preview of a portion of a content item, wherein the at least one preview is selectable and, when selected, enables a user to change to a playback position of the at least one preview. An input corresponding to a request to generate at least one preview of a portion of a content item is received. At leas...