ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,773, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for delivering media assets with post-credits content" was invented by Jean-Yves Couleaud (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.) and Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for playing post-credits content in media assets by overriding play-next logic in OTT applications and presenting options for post-credits content in broadcast applications. A media application may be pre-configured to automatically "play-next" a queued media asset after the beginning of credits of a me...