ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,894, issued on May 27, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for identifying unknown users of a device to provide personalized user profiles" was invented by Madhusudhan Srinivasan (Bangalore, India), Gaurav Gandhi (Bengaluru, India) and Siddhartha Pande (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for activating a personalized user profile on a device based on the detection of an outlying user input. A media guidance application detects a user input that is inconsistent with an active user profile. In response, the media guidance application identifies a cand...