ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,904, issued on May 13, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"User interface customization in a television platform" was invented by Ashwin Kumar Srigiri (Karnataka, India), Rohit Nigam (Karrnataka, India), Laxmi Kaushik Reddy Mukkamalla (Andhra Pradesh, India), Nipun Asthana (Karnataka, India), Ashish Agrawal (Palo Alto, Calif.), Rajneesh Kumar (Karnataka, India), Manoj Mani (Karnataka, India), Padmaja Ragavendra (Karnataka, India) and Akanksha Kalia (Uttarakhand, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a method includes storing a configuration database at a media platform. The configuration database incl...