ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,594, issued on April 8, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems and methods for determining secondary content" was invented by Alessio Tamburro (Wilmington, Del.), Meenakshi Sundaram Bagavathi Krishnan (Philadelphia) and Venkata Gunnu (Malvern, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request associated with a user for content recommendation may be determined. At least one content item indicative of a viewing history associated with the user may be determined. The at least one content item indicative of the viewing history associated with the user may include content that the user has previously watched....