ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,525, issued on July 7, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing supplemental content based on a meme" was invented by Serhad Doken (Bryn Mawr, Pa.) and Charles Dasher (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for leveraging various computer-implemented techniques and/or data structures of memes, including root memes and their associated variants, to selectively provide supplemental content to a user using a computing device at which a meme is identified for presentation. The disclosed techniques may generate the supplemental content based on dat...