ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,930, issued on July 28, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for managing streaming resource consumption" was invented by Serhad Doken (Bryn Mawr, Pa.), Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Charles Dasher (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.) and Dhananjay Lal (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for utilizing historic user consumption of media assets to manage the resources associated with streaming further media asset. tracking, at a computing device, A consumption of a plurality of media assets within a preset time period are tracked at a computin...