ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,894, issued on May 6, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for re-ordering social media feed items" was invented by Radhika Dewan (Panchkula, India) and Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah (Tumkur District, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The methods and systems described herein re-order social media feed items. In one example, the methods and systems receive on a user device social media feed items having a defined sequential order for display in a social media feed. The methods and systems also detect an occurrence of a triggering event and in response to the detection, reorder one or mor...