ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,167, issued on March 17, was assigned to DISH Technologies LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Dynamic content selection menu" was invented by Nicholas B. Newell (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content selection menu is generated and provided to a user. The content selection menu includes a plurality of audiovisual (AV) programs that are provided for user selection. The AV programs may be positioned in the content selection menu in accordance with their associated score for content attributes. Upon providing the content selection to a user, the user may select a program for viewing or the user may indicate interest in a prog...