ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,171, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to generate metadata for content" was invented by Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah (Tumkur District, India) and Vikram Makam Gupta (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for generating metadata for content. Upon detecting a request for a stored media asset from a first device, a server determines that metadata is needed for the media asset based on determining that (a) the server has access to insufficient metadata associated with the media asset and (b) the popularity of the media ...