ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,555, issued on May 19, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for modifying content based on spatial context" was invented by Aldis Sipolins (Somerville, Mass.), Jean-Yves Couleaud (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.) and Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example system, within proximity of a geospatially stationary first device that is configured to output a primary content, the system detects a second device and a potential viewer of the geospatially stationary first device. The system selects supplemental content for output by the second device based on...