ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,827, issued on July 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Network-connected television devices with knowledge-based media content recommendations and unified user interfaces that present upcoming media content" was invented by Shashank Gupta (Bengaluru, India), Vasudha Gupta (Ghaziabad, India), Kashish Singhal (Bangalore, India), Ashwin Kumar Srigiri (Bengaluru, India) and Padmaja Ragavendra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed subject matter relates generally to display technology, including but not limited to methods and systems for providing knowledge-based media content recommendations, ...