US Patent Issued to Pluto on March 31 for "Methods and systems for generating and providing program guides and content" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,103, issued on March 31, was assigned to Pluto Inc. (West Hollywood, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for generating and providing program guides and content" was invented by Nicholas A. Grouf (Beverly Hills, Calif.), Ilya Pozin (Los Angeles), Thomas Sieverding (Los Angeles), Michael Price (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Lindsey Emerson (Los Angeles), Lynn D. Gabbay (Jacksonville, Fla.), Thomas V. Ryan (Los Angeles), Audra E. Gold (Los Angeles) and Vibol C. Hou (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying, assembling, and publishing content are described. A video content item, having a first time lengt...