ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,995, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to adapt a schedule to be played by a media player" was invented by Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah (Karnataka, India), Vikram Makam Gupta (Karnataka, India), Gyanveer Singh (Bangalore, India) and Reda Harb (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for adapting playout of a plurality of media items. One example method includes receiving one or more inputs representing a conversation between an audience of two or more people experiencing the playout of the plurality of media items, processing t...