US Patent Issued to ROKU on Aug. 12 for "Use of watermarking to trigger fingerprint-related action" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,088, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Use of watermarking to trigger fingerprint-related action" was invented by Shashank C. Merchant (Sunnyvale, Calif.), John S. Stavropoulos (Edison, N.J.), Benjamin J. Ropke (Rochelle, N.Y.) and Steven M. Cormie (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Use of watermarking in a media stream as a trigger for carrying out a fingerprint-related action, such as starting to generate fingerprints of the media stream, increasing a rate of generation of fingerprints of the media stream, starting to report fingerprints of the media stream, requesting fingerpri...