ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,546, issued on June 16, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for synchronizing playing of content with future events" was invented by Aldis Sipolins (Somerville, Mass.), Charles Dasher (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to systems and methods for synchronizing content items with future events, for example, by dynamically modifying content item playlists. The systems and methods may identify a playlist and a future time at which a time-sensitive content item is to be played. The systems and methods may determine an esti...