ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,809, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DISH Technologies LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Customized commercial metrics and presentation via integrated virtual environment devices" was invented by Christofer Hardy (Cheyenne, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing customized commercial content to a user includes providing first commercial content to a user, determining, using an integrated virtual environment device, whether the user substantially viewed the first commercial content, and providing second commercial content to the user based on the first commercial content and whether the user substantially viewed the first...