ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,981, issued on May 13, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for recording portion of sports game" was invented by Abraham George Chackungal (Karnataka, India) and Christopher Charles Lidaka (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for recording a portion of content of a sports game. A request to record the portion of the content, which specifies game clock time criteria, is received by user equipment. During transmission of the content, frames of the content including a game progress graphic are analyzed to determine time values representing progress poin...