US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for intelligently managing storage space occupied by media assets" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,150, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for intelligently managing storage space occupied by media assets" was invented by Clayton Kim (Boston), Lucas Waye (Cambridge, Mass.), Richard Eric Miller (Milton, Mass.) and Matthew John Emerson (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided reducing storage space occupied by a media asset by adjusting quality levels of the media asset downward over time. This may be accomplished by a media guidance application that store, at a given time, the media asset in a first format having a first quality lev...