US Patent Issued to Roku on Feb. 25 for "Computing system with device attestation feature" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,392, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Computing system with device attestation feature" was invented by Willard Lennox Simmons (Boston), Atanas Hristov Banov (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Douglas Corey Reher (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example method includes (i) encountering, by a media player of a media presentation system, a trigger to transmit a network communication to a computing device; (ii) generating, by the media player, an attestation watermark indicative of an authenticity of the media player using a cryptographic key; (iii) attaching, by the media pl...