ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,929, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to OPENTV INC. (San Francisco).

"Media synchronized control of peripherals" was invented by Claes Georg Andersson (Berkeley, Calif.), John Michael Teixeira (Oakland, Calif.), Nicholas Daniel Doerring (San Francisco), Nicholas Fishwick (San Francisco) and Colin Reed Miller (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system and method for synchronizing actions associated with media between a media/network device and peripherals. In an example implementation, a system includes a one or more processors configured to receive, by a communication module from a media/network device ba...