ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,268, issued on May 13, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for navigating content" was invented by Charishma Chundi (Andhra Pradesh, India) and Susanto Sen (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for navigating content are provided. A method includes detecting an input to perform a content navigation operation in a display interface, the input designating a two-dimensional path in a content display interface. The method determines a forward or reverse direction for the content navigation operation and receives an input indicating the two-dimensional path within the c...