US Patent Issued to DISH Technologies on April 8 for "Automated identification of video program content" (Colorado, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,598, issued on April 8, was assigned to DISH Technologies LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Automated identification of video program content" was invented by Robert Drew Major (Orem, Utah), Christopher Boyd Tirpak (Monument, Colo.) and Steven Michael Casagrande (Castle Rock, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems, devices and methods automatically identify advertisements or other portions of television or other media content prior to broadcast using automated content analysis. Information about identified content may be used for any number of different purposes, including advertisement identification; advertisement replacement;...