ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,940, issued on May 13, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Dynamic media content runtime modification" was invented by Susanto Sen (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for modifying runtimes of media assets are disclosed. A first input is received indicating a request to modify a current runtime of a media asset being generated for display on a media device. The media asset includes segments. A second input is received and based on the second input, a shortened version of the media asset having a shortened runtime is generated. One or more segments of the media asset are removed from...