ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,820, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Providing supplemental content for a second screen experience" was invented by John Carney (Sausalito, Calif.), Greg Thomson (Mill Valley, Calif.), Don Ahrens (San Francisco), Justin Gravante (Audubon, N.J.), Andrew Evans (West Chester, Pa.) and Jill McLaughlin (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing devices, computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions, methods, and systems for discovering, organizing, and presenting supplemental content are disclosed. A discovery system may be used to discover an item, such a...