ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,339, issued on April 7, was assigned to Paramount Global (New York).

"Methods and systems for generating and providing program guides and content" was invented by Guanxi Shen (Los Angeles), Xiaofei Wang (Los Angeles), Jamal Salmon (Los Angeles), Reeyaz Hamirani (Los Angeles), Natalie LaBelle (Los Angeles) and Robert William Puttkammer (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are configured to deploy additional network computer resources in response to a predicted increase in streaming of one or more items of content. Searches related to an entity are monitored. A first baseline with a quantity of searches for t...