ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,559, issued on June 17, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Consolidated watch parties" was invented by Neil Marten (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A consolidated watch party system includes a sync server and a first user device communicatively coupled thereto. The sync server executes computer instructions instantiating a consolidation engine operable to assemble a watch party reel that includes a content segment and a prior reaction to the content segment and output the watch party reel to the first user device for presentation to a first user. The content segment may include a portion of a content...