US Patent Issued to Pluto on June 23 for "Methods and systems for generating and providing program guides and content" (American, Ukrainian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,098, issued on June 23, was assigned to Pluto Inc. (West Hollywood, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for generating and providing program guides and content" was invented by Spencer Shanson (Menlo Park, Calif.), Pavlo Kalmykov Vasilievich (Kharkov Oblast, Ukraine), Jonathan Michael Jesperson (West Hollywood, Calif.), Adrian Chiu (West Hollywood, Calif.), Bryan Randall Fish (West Hollywood, Calif.), Jonathan Jovan Gwiazda (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Sonia Priya Hashim (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are configured to manage streaming video content. A first time length specification for a content pod is acc...