ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,347, issued on May 5, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for real-time controls for endpoint media devices" was invented by Caroline Elizabeth Condon (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, media devices, machine-readable media, and methods facilitate endpoint media device controls. Data streams may be processed as each is received by devices of a local network. The data streams may facilitate presentation of audio, video, and/or textual content with an endpoint media device. For each data stream, a security protocol may be detected that applies to the data stream based on of the source, t...