ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,047, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for increasing first user subscription" was invented by Vikram Makam Gupta (Karnataka, India), Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah (Tiptur, India) and Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for generating a customized media asset to incentivize a first user to subscribe to a subscription service. A first user provides their subscription access information to a media provider. In response to receiving the subscription access information, the media provider determines whether the subscripti...