ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,562, issued on June 17, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for handling audio disruptions" was invented by Srikanth Channapragada (Bangalore, India) and Vikram Makam Gupta (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for selectively replaying interrupted segments of media content that are important for understanding a storyline of the media content. In response to detecting noise in a media presentation environment where a current segment is being played, it is determined whether the current segment is important. Responsive to the determination that t...