ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,783, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Adeia Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Media appliance" was invented by David Dinka (Stockholm) and Gisela Gier (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media appliance comprising: video apparatus for outputting signals to a screen; a control device allowing a user to control the output of signals from the video apparatus to the screen, thereby selecting a viewing activity; a network interface for accessing a packet-based network; a memory storing a communication client application; and processing apparatus, coupled to the memory, network interface and video apparatus, and arranged to exe...