US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on June 16 for "User interface for improving user engagement on a media content item being presented" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,549, issued on June 16, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"User interface for improving user engagement on a media content item being presented" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for improving, by a device, user engagement on a media content item being presented. To do so, the device presents, to the user, a poll related to the media content item during the presentation of the media content item. The device generates the poll by e.g., analyzing the media content item to identify multiple even...