ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,138, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for media content navigation and filtering" was invented by George Grigore (Iasi, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system generates a display providing storyline information. The display includes, for example, a plurality of storyline identifiers, a plurality of time period indicators, and a plurality of episode indicators. Episode indicators indicate an episode having a segment of the storyline corresponding to a storyline identifier. The system may receive a user input selecting a storyline, or further filtering an existing ...