US Patent Issued to DISH NETWORK on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for 3D printing of limited edition virtual items" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,262, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DISH NETWORK LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for 3D printing of limited edition virtual items" was invented by Eric C. Pleiman (Englewood, Colo.) and Jesus Flores Guerra (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D printing system and method for limited edition virtual objects is disclosed. The method including: enabling a user to obtain a limited edition virtual object associated with an activity of the user in a virtual environment; receiving a request from the user to 3D print the limited edition virtual object; preparing a 3D printer file of the limited edition virtu...