ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,936, issued on July 28, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Expiring synchronized supplemental content in time-shifted media" was invented by Sahir Nasir (San Jose, Calif.), Alexander Liston (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Edwin Stephen Mack (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for providing interactive content contextually related to an occurrence. An illustrative method generates for display, at a media consumption device, a display of the live event, wherein the display of the live event comprises the occurrence, determines a beginning of the occurrence in the display of t...