ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,569, issued on April 29, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Audio time synchronization using prioritized schedule" was invented by Brian Thoft Moth Moller (Hojberg, Denmark), Paul Fleischer (Aarhus, Denmark) and Bjorn Reese (Aarhus, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for synchronizing playback of an audio and/or video content. An embodiment operates by collectively selecting, by a first device in concert with a second device of a plurality of devices in a computer network session, and in accordance with a predetermined synchronization list co...