US Patent Issued to Adeia Media Holdings on May 27 for "Character based search and discovery of media content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,919, issued on May 27, was assigned to Adeia Media Holdings LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Character based search and discovery of media content" was invented by John Hinman (San Francisco), Ray DeRenzo (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Timothy Chan (Union City, Calif.), Allen Billings (Lafayette, Calif.), Stephen Coney (San Francisco) and David Brubeck (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for character-based and image-based media content search and discovery. Character images or entity images are mapped to corresponding media content. Selection of an image or a portion of an image may trigger or search for corr...