ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,045, issued on June 24, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for displaying content during a loading event" was invented by Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.), Srikanth Channapragada (Karnataka, India), Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah (Karnataka, India), Pooja Srivastava (Bengaluru, India) and Harsha Neerakani (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided systems and methods for displaying content to a user during a loading event. The systems and methods comprise receiving recommendation data from a recommendation engine, downloading a first media content item based on the reco...