ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,852, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Computing device upgrading system over a wireless network" was invented by Prateek Tandon (San Jose, Calif.) and Cameron Esfahani (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for a computing device upgrading system over a wireless network. An embodiment operates by determining that a computing device is connected to an upgrader device over a wireless network connection. It is determined that an upgrader mode of the computing device is activated based on the determination that the wirele...