ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,071, issued on March 25, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for content item recognition and adaptive packet transmission" was invented by Jorg Nonnenmacher (Plascassier, France) and Kate Megan Carney Landow (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for audio/video recognition and adaptive packet transmission are disclosed. A first content item that includes audio content and video content may be received and processed to detect a set of one or more video characteristics and/or a set of one or more audio characteristics that may be analyzed to identify ...