ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,623, issued on June 24, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Smart hotel" was invented by Christopher William Krasny Ergen (Littleton, Colo.), Charles W. Ergen (Littleton, Colo.) and Max S. Gratton (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods for configuring structures and environs based on detected users and generic or known itineraries are described. A system may include: a hub having a data store, non-transiently storing computer instructions for a hub tracker engine (THE) and for a hub response engine (HRE) and a processor; a tracker node; and a responding device. The HTE instructs ...