ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,680, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to provide adaptive play settings" was invented by Padmassri Chandrashekar (Bangalore, India) and Daina Emmanuel (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for applying adaptive play settings to a media asset. One example method includes identifying a media asset selected for playback and retrieving a plurality of user preferences. The user preferences correlate a play function to a type of a segment of a media asset. A plurality of segments in the media asset selected for playback are identified a...