US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for altering a progress bar to prevent spoilers in a media asset" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,129, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for altering a progress bar to prevent spoilers in a media asset" was invented by Thomas Kang-Po Yan (Lexington, Mass.), Hong-Qi Jia (Dedham, Mass.), Peter Boonstra (Arlington, Mass.) and Kerui Chen (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for altering or otherwise obscuring a progress bar to prevent spoilers in a media asset. A media asset is generated for display and an input is detected from a user during playback of the media asset. A determination is made whether the input comprises a comm...