ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,480, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.) and DISH Network Technologies India Private Ltd. (Bengaluru, India).

"Network segmentation for multi-dwelling unit (MDU)" was invented by Joshua D. Wade (Castle Rock, Colo.), Jason Anthony Madruga (Castle Rock, Colo.), Clark Hurst Pendery (Englewood, Colo.), Dalton William Hertel (Denver), Aaron William Schwartz (Denver), Ryan Scribner (Erie, Colo.), Himanshu Jain (Karnataka, India), Sandeep Kumar Bhatta (Karnataka, India) and Laxminarayana Dalimba (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for provisioning content streaming service ...