US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on April 14 for "Selective playback of audio at normal speed during trick play operations" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,068, issued on April 14, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Selective playback of audio at normal speed during trick play operations" was invented by Akshay Chetan Shah (Maharashtra, India) and Padmassri Chandrashekar (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for selective playback of portions of audio at normal speed during a fast-forward operation. Upon receiving a command to perform a fast-forward operation, a current playback position is identified, as well as a plurality of portions of audio of the content item that will be subject to the fast-forward operation...