ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,103, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Supporting contextual supplemental content interactions for streamers by monitoring engagement" was invented by Aldis Sipolins (Somerville, Mass.), Serhad Doken (Bryn Mawr, Pa.) and Cato Yang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for monitoring chat activity in a live streaming session and automatically presenting prompts that include information of a supplemental content item that is related to the topic of the chat for presentation during the streaming session. The system receives and analyzes a chat message t...