ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,764, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Synamedia Ltd. (Maidenhead, Great Britain).

"Systems, devices, and methods for selecting TV user interface transitions" was invented by Karthigayan Anand (Bangalore, India), Anthony Leigh (Workingham, Great Britain) and Peter Benjamin Matthews (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for selecting TV user interface (UI) transition characteristics are described. In accordance with various embodiments, a transition characteristics selection method is performed at a device (e.g., a cloud UI engine on a server) with one or more processors and a non-transitory memory. Th...