ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,664, issued on June 3, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for predictive selection of pause points" was invented by Ishan Dhanwal (Haryana, India), Simranjeet Gill (Punjab, India), Anjum Makkar (Punjab, India), Vivek Sehgal (Uttar Pradesh, India) and Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for determining that a plurality of user profiles, stored in the memory, are associated with an account of a media application; generating for presentation a media asset during a first consumption session associated with the account; generating for presentation a...