ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,093, issued on March 25, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing a progress bar for updating viewing status of previously viewed content" was invented by Angel Merced (Wayne, Pa.), Krista Ramirez (Ardmore, Pa.) and Todd Dietz (North Wales, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for providing information about events occurring in media content that was previously accessed. A display of a progress bar including segments for the events in the previously accessed content is provided in the screen view of current media being accessed. The progress bar segments ...