ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,699, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Detection of downstream smart devices" was invented by Gregory Mack Garner (Springdale, Ark.), David Stern (Los Gatos, Calif.), David Westerhoff (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Dustin Verhoeve (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for detecting downstream devices connected to an electrical load controlling device. An example embodiment operates by detecting an association signal from a downstream ...