ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,864, issued on June 30, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for controlling access to media assets using two-factor authentication" was invented by Harshith Kumar Gejjegondanahally Sreekanth (Shivamogga, India), Ashwini Dharwa (Ratlam, India), Sourabh Kumar (Begusarai Bihar, India) and Sukanya Agarwal (Panchkula, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for authorizing operations associated with blocked media assets using two-factor authentication. In some aspects, a media guidance application (e.g., executed by a set-top box or other user equipment used to store and display medi...