ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,469, issued on June 10, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing simultaneous display of portions of a media asset" was invented by Dhananjay Lal (Englewood, Colo.) and Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for receiving a first request to access a media asset; identifying a first portion of the media asset to be provided for display based on the first request, wherein the first portion of the media asset corresponds to a first timepoint of the media asset; identifying a second portion of the media asset corresponding to a second timepoi...