US Patent Issued to Pluto on Sept. 16 for "Methods and systems for controlling streaming content aspect ratios" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,697, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Pluto Inc. (West Hollywood, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for controlling streaming content aspect ratios" was invented by Vibol C. Hou (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the present disclosure relates to methods and systems configured to control video content rendering on a user device. After primary streaming content has been rendered on the user device using a first aspect ratio, streaming of secondary content to the user device is detected. The first aspect ratio is automatically changed to a second aspect ratio in response to detecting the streaming of second...