ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,469, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Resuming playback on multiple streaming devices" was invented by Javier Alvarez (Austin, Texas), Robert Van Gulick (Austin, Texas) and Nicolas Hewitt (Austin, Texas).

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 transferring streaming media playback between streaming media devices. In an example embodiment, a user may be streaming content using a first media device. The user may then send a command to the first m...