ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,906, issued on May 12, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and methods for resolving query related to content" was invented by Ankur Anil Aher (Kalyan, India) and Jeffry Copps Robert Jose (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for providing a reply to a query related to a media asset. A query may be received from a user while the media asset is being played on a first device, and in response to determining that the query is related to the media asset, a snapshot of the media asset may be captured, where the snapshot comprises a depiction of a first object and a second...