ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,922, issued on May 13, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing synchronized supplemental content to a subset of users that are disinterested in live content" was invented by Dylan Matthew Wondra (Mountain View, Calif.), Jean Michelle Somlo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michaela Schlocker Logan (San Jose, Calif.), Mario Miguel Sanchez (San Jose, Calif.) and William L. Thomas (Evergreen, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for providing supplemental content to a group of users when the group of users is disinterested in content from a live content stream....