US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on July 22 for "Systems and methods for detecting a number of viewers" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,923, issued on July 22, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for detecting a number of viewers" was invented by Vikram Makam Gupta (Karnataka, India), Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.) and Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah (Tiptur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting a number of viewers of a media device are disclosed. The methods comprise generating for display on the media device a media asset, initiating a first scan while displaying the media asset for nearby user devices within a detectable range, determining a number of nearby user devices, determining a directio...