ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,494, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing media content listings according to points of interest" was invented by Royce Hamano (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for allowing a user to obtain a listing of points of interest and associated media content listings based on the user's current geographic location. The user's current geographic location may be determined using, for example, a GPS transceiver incorporated in the user's user access device. Information may then be communicated from a remote server to the user acces...