ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,257, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for concurrent content presentation" was invented by Peter Jason Calvert (Limerick, Pa.) and Christopher Lidaka (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are employed for providing vehicle-associated concurrent content presentation over a network for in-vehicle use. The system determines a network of friends are traveling to a destination and provides an opportunity to enjoy listening to the same curated playlist of media content. The content presentation includes generating a playlist based on the user profiles or ...