ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,119, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing notifications within a media asset without breaking immersion" was invented by Vikram Makam Gupta (Karnataka, India), Prateek Varshney (Karnataka, India), Madhusudhan Seetharam (Karnataka, India), Ashish Kumar Srivastava (Karnataka, India) and Harshith Kumar Gejjegondanahally Sreekanth (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing notifications without breaking media immersion. A notification delivery application receives notification data while a media device provides a media asset. ...