ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,127, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Media channel rewards application with live polling" was invented by Gerritt A. Luoma (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system and method may provide a media channel rewards application with live polling. An example system may measure a viewing period of the media stream, determine a quantity of digital points respective to a user profile and the media stream based on the measured viewing period, and store a digital record associated with the user profile and the media channel, which digital record indicates the quantity of digital p...