ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,649, issued on June 24, was assigned to DISH NETWORK LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Alternatives to router status lights" was invented by Caroline Condon (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of obtaining status information is disclosed. The method includes transmitting, by a router device, first status information to a network device; determining, by the router device, that the router device is not connected to the network device; causing, by the router device, a light emitting device to output light in an illumination pattern in response to the determining that the router device is not connected to the network device; generatin...