ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,900, issued on June 24, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for leveraging metadata for cross product playlist addition via voice control" was invented by Christopher Lidaka (Apex, N.C.) and Peter Jason Calvert (Limerick, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating a playlist of audio content for a vehicle are disclosed. An audio input is received at a vehicle entertainment system of the vehicle while an audio content item is currently played by the vehicle entertainment system. The audio input includes an audio command trigger and an audio playlist command. In response...