ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,182, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to DISH Network Technologies India Private Ltd. (Bangalore, India).

"Systems and methods for intelligent playback" was invented by Yatish Jayant Naik Raikar (Bengaluru, India), Varunkumar Tripathi (Bengaluru, India) and Karthik Mahabaleshwar Hegde (Uttara Kannada, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for intelligent playback of media content may include an intelligent media playback system that, in response to determining the speech tempo in audio content by measuring syllable density of speech in the audio content, automatically adjusts a playback speed of the audio content as...