US Patent Issued to DISH Network on May 13 for "Automated content identification for binge watching of digital media" (Utah, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,937, issued on May 13, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Automated content identification for binge watching of digital media" was invented by Robert Drew Major (Orem, Utah) and Steven Casagrande (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ""Binge watching" of multiple episodes of a program is improved by the player device automatically skipping repeated portions of the program. Opening and closing credit scenes, for example, can be automatically skipped to thereby allow the viewer to progress through the entire season of programming at an even faster rate than was previously thought possible. Programming to b...