ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,682, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for improving user engagement with content via an adaptable interactive element" was invented by Dhananjay Lal (Englewood, Colo.), Aldis Sipolins (Somerville, Mass.), Jean-Yves Couleaud (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.) and Serhad Doken (Bryn Mawr, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed herein for enabling an improved management of a buffer resource of the device during a presentation of a content item, by improving user engagement with content via an adaptable interactive element. A first c...