ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,193, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"System and method for reducing subscriber churn through complimentary data allocations" was invented by Mikhail Arbuzov (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sisong Bei (Dublin, Calif.) and Dmitry Dimov (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and media for allocating complimentary data to subscribers to prevent them from being put in throttling mode. A method includes identifying, from subscribers of a wireless network, one or more subscribers that each have used at least a first predetermined percentage of their respective data ...