ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,446, issued on May 6, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Machine learning avatar for consolidating and presenting data in virtual environments" was invented by Eric Pleiman (Centennial, Colo.) and Jesus Flores Guerra (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes, systems, and devices generate a training set comprising a first presentation having a first visual aid and a first audio description. The first visual aid and the first audio description are based on initial data retrieved from a first data source using a first indexing technique. The machine-learning system is trained using the first presentation and t...