US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Feb. 10 for "Methods and systems for customizing skip-forward functionality" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,680, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for customizing skip-forward functionality" was invented by Milan Patel (Santa Clara, Calif.), Abubakkar Siddiq (Methuen, Mass.), Ajay Kumar Gupta (Andover, Mass.), Sai Rahul Reddy Pulikunta (Andover, Mass.) and Sashikumar Venkataraman (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, control circuitry receives and stores a user-specified time duration to associate with a skip-forward command. When the user later issues a skip-forward command to advance playback of a media asset to a desired location, the control circuitry...