ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,487, issued on June 10, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for streaming media content on multiple devices" was invented by Ishan Dhanwal (Haryana, India), Anjum Makkar (Punjab, India), Vivek Sehgal (Uttar Pradesh, India), Simranjeet Gill (Punjab, India) and Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented herein for streaming of media content. The methods and systems include receiving a request to stream a media content item; accessing a profile of a user authorized to access the streaming service; determining whether a bonus stream in addition to a defau...