ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,871, issued on June 30, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing timeline of content items on a user interface" was invented by Vikram Makam Gupta (Bangalore, India) and Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The methods and systems described herein provide timelines of content segments on a user interface. In one example, the methods and systems generate for display a first content item, determine a current portion of the first content item and determine a related content segment that is related to the current portion of the first content ...