US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on May 27 for "Automatic determination and retrieval of a favorite channel" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,915, issued on May 27, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Automatic determination and retrieval of a favorite channel" was invented by Ramaiah Satish (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A consumer electronic device tracks the current channel to which the electronic consumer device is tuned. The consumer electronic device determines an amount of time that the current channel remains unchanged. Based at least in part on this amount of time, the consumer electronic device determines whether the current channel should be stored as a favorite channel. When the consumer electronic device subsequen...