ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,273, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method for using device discovery to provide advertising services" was invented by Arsham Hatambeiki (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system provides advertising by using a device discovery process to automatically determine an information about a home network system of a user. When it is determined that a first advertisement has been caused to be presented via a first content providing service or a first media access device, the information is used to automatically prevent a second content providing service or a secon...