ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,071, issued on April 14, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for generating a custom summary of unconsumed portions of a series of media assets" was invented by Ankur Anil Aher (Maharashtra, India), Harish Ashok Kumar (Tamil Nadu, India), Bhavna Jindal (Punjab, India) and Anjali Gulati (Punjab, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for generating summaries of unconsumed portions of an ordered series of media assets, customized for multiple users. A media guidance application may determine that a given media asset of an ordered series is to be collectively co...