ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,298, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic collection and reporting of customer premises context information in response to predicted emergency event" was invented by Sunil Ramesh (Cupertino, Calif.), Charles Brian Pinkerton (Boulder, Colo.), Mark Robins (San Jose, Calif.) and Anthony Wood (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for collecting context information in response to prediction of an emergency event. A cloud-based computing system could determine that an emergency event is predicted to impact a customer premises at an upcoming time. Responsive to that determi...