US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods for dynamically enabling and disabling a biometric device" (Pennsylvania, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,186, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for dynamically enabling and disabling a biometric device" was invented by Angel Merced (Wilmington, Del.), Krista Ramirez (Ardmore, Pa.) and Todd Dietz (North Wales, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described to address deficiencies in conventional biometric devices by dynamically enabling and disabling a biometric device based on the content the user is viewing. The media guidance application may utilize a device enablement rule, which has content criteria. If the content criteria is satisfied, the media guid...