US Patent Issued to Google on May 6 for "Dynamically adjustable electronic program guide" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,759, issued on May 6, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Dynamically adjustable electronic program guide" was invented by Michael Kleinerman (New York) and Neil Cormican (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metadata for media content items is received. The metadata identifies a thumbnail representation of the media content items. At least some of media content items are displayed in an overview area in an EPG of a user interface. The overview area includes cells aligned in one or more rows. The cells include a subset of the metadata for a respective media content item. The subset of the metadata includ...