US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on May 27 for "Systems and methods for displaying a notification at an area on a display screen that is within a line of sight of a subset of audience members to whom the notification pertains" (British, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,595, issued on May 27, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for displaying a notification at an area on a display screen that is within a line of sight of a subset of audience members to whom the notification pertains" was invented by Charles Dawes (Ryton, Great Britain) and Takeaki Obara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating for display a notification to a plurality of users at a position within a display screen to which each user of the plurality of users is paying attention. Specifically, the media guidance application captures lines of s...