ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,838, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to DISH NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES INDIA PRIVATE Ltd. (Bangalore, India).

"Utilizing text-based input to dynamic select and present specific portions of audiovisual content to user" was invented by Kunal Kini K (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for accessing particular content using string-based unique identifiers. A plurality of audiovisual content is accessed and analyzed for a plurality of text strings. For each corresponding text string of the plurality of text strings, a unique identifier is generated and a corresponding timestamp is determined for when the corres...