ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,160, issued on May 13, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"User-controlled viewing preferences" was invented by Daina Emmanuel (Bangalore, India) and Padmassri Chandrashekar (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described to a database comprising multiple database records, where each database record comprises an attribute of a content item consumed by a user and an indication of a user device used by the user to consume the content item, and is associated with an indication of whether a content provider should be granted access to the respective database record. An option to modif...