US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on May 13 for "Systems and methods for navigating media assets" (California, Colorado, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,949, issued on May 13, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for navigating media assets" was invented by William L. Thomas (Evergreen, Colo.), Margret B. Schmidt (Redwood City, Calif.), Ajay Kumar Gupta (Andover, Mass.), Alexander W. Liston (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jonathan A. Logan (Mountain View, Calif.), Mathew C. Burns (Dublin, Calif.) and Gabriel C. Dalbac (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for presenting custom navigation options are described herein. In some embodiments, the media guidance application displays a first portion of a media asset, and receives...