ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,051, issued on June 24, was assigned to DISH Network Technologies India Private Ltd. (India).

"User-customizable reminder notifications for soon-to-be-released and newly-available media content" was invented by Rajashekhar M. Basavarajappa (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are provided for generating reminder notifications pertaining to time-sensitive media content. In various embodiments, the method includes the step or process of establishing whether time-sensitive media content is desirably viewed by an end user of the media receiver. If establishing that time-sensitive media content is desirably...