ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,766, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Recommendations based on short-media viewing profile and long-media viewing profile" was invented by Abubakkar Siddiq (Methuen, Mass.), Vineet Agarwal (Andover, Mass.) and Abhijit Satchidanand Savarkar (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for providing recommendations to a user. A short-media viewing profile may be maintained for the user. The short-media viewing profile may be based on user's behavior while watching short-length media content. A long-media viewing profile may be maintained for the user. Th...