ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,713, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed computing to implement privacy policies on edge devices" was invented by Gregory Garner (Key Colony Beach, Fla.), Sunil Ramesh (Saratoga, Calif.), Michael Patrick Cutter (Golden, Colo.), Carl Sassenrath (Reno, Nev.), Bollapragada Manohar (San Jose, Calif.) and Karina Levitian (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are computing system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for distributing processing of sensor data. For example, a ...