ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,661, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for flexibly using trending topics as parameters for recommending media assets that are related to a viewed media asset" was invented by Sashikumar Venkataraman (Andover, Mass.) and Vineet Agarwal (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for flexibly using trending topics as parameters for recommending media assets that are related to a viewed media asset. A media guidance application may determine that a user has viewed a media asset. The media guidance may identify a plurality of attribute...