ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,797, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for providing media content" was invented by V. Michael Bove Jr. (Wrentham, Mass.), Serhad Doken (Bryn Mawr, Pa.) and Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for determining an amount of time for charging a vehicle battery and selecting one or more media content items for display on a user device based on the amount of time for charging the vehicle battery. A level of driving autonomy of a vehicle is determined. An audio and/or video setting of the media content item is adjusted based ...