ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,926, issued on May 13, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for retrieving segmented media guidance data" was invented by Corey Tulis (Portland, Ore.), David Wittke (Simi Valley, Calif.), Mikhail Aksenfeld (Castaic, Calif.) and Michael McCarty (Agoura Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented for reducing network traffic when retrieving media guidance data. For example, a media guidance application receives a first user selection to display a group of media asset identifiers (e.g., video-on-demand listings) and retrieves detailed information from a remote serv...