ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,711, issued on July 29, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for calculating a predicted time when a user will be exposed to a spoiler of a media asset" was invented by Mathew C. Burns (Dublin, Calif.), Jonathan A. Logan (Mountain View, Calif.), Gabriel C. Dalbec (Bethel Island, Calif.), Ajay Kumar Gupta (Andover, Calif.), Alexander W. Liston (Menlo Park, Calif.), Margret B. Schmidt (Redwood City, Calif.) and William L. Thomas (Evergreen, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for calculating a predicted time when a first user will be exposed to a spoiler o...