ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,416, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for dynamic content restriction based on a relationship" was invented by Rohit Dhiman (Uttarakhand, India), Vaibhav Gupta (Karnataka, India), Ashish Gupta (Karnataka, India), Senthil Kumar Karuppasamy (Bangalore, India) and Anil Kumar (Haryana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein to dynamically update content restrictions for multiple users by detecting a first user in the proximity of a media device playing a first content item and detecting a second user entering the proximity of the media de...