ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,566, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Devices for facilitating streaming in a local network with a client-server architecture" was invented by Aram Semerjyan (Aurora, Colo.) and Shiqiang Chu (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory, machine-readable media to facilitate streaming in a local network with a client-server architecture are disclosed. A configuration tool may configure a primary media device to perform operations with respect to a local network. The configuration tool may be adapted to communicatively couple with the primary media de...