ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,850, issued on May 12, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for highlighting content within media assets" was invented by Padmassri Chandrashekar (Karnataka, India), Daina Emmanuel (Bangalore, India) and Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for highlighting objects with a primary content that are likely to be of interest to a user viewing the primary content. More particularly, when the system receives a segment of primary content to be displayed on a user equipment device for consumption, the system analyzes the received segment to ide...