ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,896, issued on May 27, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for adapting content items to secured endpoint media device data" was invented by Jorg Nonnenmacher (Plascassier, France) and Robert Drew Major (Orem, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and machine-readable media for adapting content composites to device operations of an endpoint media device are disclosed. Blockchain data associated with a blockchain address may be processed by one or more processing devices. The blockchain data and/or the blockchain address may be mapped by the one or more processing devices to a firs...