ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,937, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method of generating a personalized television channel, corresponding device, system and computer program" was invented by Laurent Jean Brunel (Chatillon, France) and Louis Xavier Carbonnel (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a personalized television channel for a user of a terminal configured to access at least one audiovisual content broadcasting service is disclosed. The method includes obtaining user preference criteria in advance; for at least one given time slot, selecting, from the preference criteria obtained, a...