ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,544, issued on April 1, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Generation, provision and interactive display of spooling media packages and related analytical information" was invented by Joshua Hartmann (Cheyenne, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility for generating and displaying information regarding the packaging of individual media asset files associated with multiple scheduled presentations of interstitial media assets is provided. Scheduling information is received regarding future scheduled media presentations for each of a plurality of media assets via one or more content channels. Based at least in p...