ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,654, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for customizing channel programming" was invented by Josiah Eatedali (Los Angeles) and Mark Arana (Agoura Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for systems and methods for customizing channel programming. The disclosed methods and systems utilize various data inputs, including affirmative user inputs, non-affirmative user characteristics, environmental data and/or temporal data to customize channel programming for a particular user or group of users. In a further aspect, the disclosed methods ...