ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,217, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optimization of IPv6 and DNS connectivity" was invented by Sudipto Nandi (San Jose, Calif.), Amalavoyal Narasimha Chari (San Jose, Calif.), Jason Schmidlapp (San Jose, Calif.), Tito Thomas (San Jose, Calif.) and Allen Wong (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 optimizing network connections of media devices using IPv6 and DNS tests to detect network issues related to IPv6 addressing and...