ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,055, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Interest based recommendation system" was invented by Fei Xiao (San Jose, Calif.), Ronica Jethwa (Mountain View, Calif.), Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Abhishek Bambha (Burlimgame, Calif.), Zidong Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Jose Sanchez (San Jose, Calif.), Nam Vo (San Jose, Calif.), Khaldun Aidarabsah (San Jose, Calif.), Pulkit Aggarwal (San Jose, Calif.), Lian Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Anirban Das (San Jose, Calif.) and Rohit Mahto (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of content items can be accessed by a community of users having a set of interests. ...