ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,090, issued on March 25, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Customized clock based skip functionality" was invented by Charishma Chundi (Andhra Pradesh, India), Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.) and Rajendra Pandey (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for dynamically navigating content are provided. Media content is generated for display on a user device. A selectable indicator for incrementally skipping through the media content is also generated. An input indicating selection of the selectable indicator is received and, in response to receiving the input indicating the selection of the...