ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,391, issued on July 15, was assigned to Adeia Solutions LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Windows management in a television environment" was invented by Daniel Putterman (San Francisco), Brad Dietrich (San Francisco), Gregory Peters (San Francisco) and Richard Bullwinkle (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media content is received in a windows management application. The media content is from a set of content including zero or more television signal content and zero or more application content. The media content is incorporated into a television signal containing a window configuration. The television signal is then sent from ...