US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on Aug. 4 for "System and method for automatic channel lineup determination" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,288, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method for automatic channel lineup determination" was invented by Paul D. Arling (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current geographical location of a portable device is used to facilitate selection of channel lineup that is appropriate for a Multi-System Operator (MSO) provider and the current geographical location of the portable device. A program guide GUI of the portable device is then configured using the selected channel lineup. The configured GUI is displayable to a user of the portable device whereupon the confi...