ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,228, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for generating a notification" was invented by Calvin Nguyen (North Hills, Calif.) and Donn Smith (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a media guidance application that alerts a user to the appearance of objects in media content that may be of interest to the user. For example, as media content progresses, the media guidance application may determine objects that may interest a user. The media guidance application may record the number of determined objects and present the number to the u...