ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,731, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DISH TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Automated testing for content receivers" was invented by James Freed (Denver) and Jeffrey Anderson (Thornton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated test platform is disclosed for use in developing and troubleshooting customized software for multimedia content receivers. The automated test platform allows developers to script test cases that permit interaction with multiple content receivers at the same time. The test platform can be applied generally to any client-server system. The automated test platform is used to create scripts, run the...