ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,743, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis, Mich.).

"System and method for asynchronous user-centric context-based shared viewing of multimedia" was invented by Toby Miller (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for establishing a context-centric shared-viewing party. A processor in a network server may determine content for shared viewing based on inputs received from a user via a user device, and select a context participant group. Each of the user and participants in the selected group may share a commonality with the other participants in that group...