ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,482, issued on June 10, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for filtering media content" was invented by Ofer Vaisler (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Olivier Chalouhi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Rob Marquardt (Pacifica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and systems are disclosed for presenting media asset identifiers retrieved based on a user search criteria. User's input of a first information, a second information, and a third information is received. The system identifies an information type associated with each received information. If the first information and the third information are asso...