ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,277, issued on March 31, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Smart sports result implications" was invented by Chris Kuhrt (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and methods for identifying content for impact events to users are described. A system may include a set top box ("STB"), an event server ("ES"), a stats server ("STATS"), and a user device ("UD"). The STB instantiates a preference application which determines a first user preferred first entity ("1UPFE"). Based on the 1UPFE a results implication application, instantiated by the STB, requests the ES to search for first events tha...