ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,671, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Autoplaying content across multiple providers on a television" was invented by Venkata Gangadhar Kanchu (Bangalore, India), Sundaramoorthy Murugesan (Bangalore, India), Tamojit Chatterjee (Shyamnagar, India), Kopal Niranjan (Lucknow, India), Shravan Nayak (Bangalore, India), Priyanshi Sharma (Greater Noida, India) and Kanishka Mishra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a method may include receiving a request to generate an autoplay list, identifying a plurality of media content items, identifying a runtime for each of ...