ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,772, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to DISH Network Technologies India Private Ltd. (Karnataka, India).

"Remote operation handling on PTS restart" was invented by Vimalraj Ganesan (Kaikondrahalli, India), Deepak Sharma (Mahadevapura, India) and Devaraja Huvinahalli (Jewargi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and processes for reducing interruptions due to a presentation timestamp restart (PTSrs) are provided. A process includes receiving content data packets identifiable by a timestamp. The timestamps vary between a PTSmin and a PTSmax. When PTSmax is reached, a next data packet is restarted at substantially equal...