ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,851, issued on March 24, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Centralized user access management and personalized service provisioning" was invented by Clark Hurst Pendery (Englewood, Colo.), Ryan Scribner (Erie, Colo.), Aaron William Schwartz (Denver), Joshua D. Wade (Castle Rock, Colo.), Jason Anthony Madruga (Castle Rock, Colo.) and Dalton William Hertel (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for provisioning services to a hospitality user in a hospitality establishment are provided. An example method includes creating a user profile for the hospitality user. The user profile include...