ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,757, issued on May 6, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for adjusting a viewing environment" was invented by Amber Bellerjeau (Littleton, Colo.), Luke E. VanDuyn (Conifer, Colo.) and Caroline Condon (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A viewing environment adjustment system, including: one or more sensors each configured to monitor an aspect of the viewing environment; one or more processors; and one or more memory devices having stored thereon instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to: determine that media content is being displayed on...