US Patent Issued to Adeia Media Solutions on April 22 for "Automatic contact information transmission system" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,423, issued on April 22, was assigned to Adeia Media Solutions Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatic contact information transmission system" was invented by James M Barton (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Brian Lanier (Bryn Mawr, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a DVR sends a user's contact information over a network to a third party. Upon determining that a television program or advertisement contains a special tag that is associated with a third party, the DVR displays, to the user, a prompt that invites the DVR user to allow the DVR to send the user's contact information to the third party. If the user gives permis...