ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,800, issued on July 15, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Radio frequency remote control" was invented by Greg Garner (Springdale, Ariz.), Tito Thomas (San Jose, Calif.), Carl Sassenrath (Ukiah, Calif.) and Scott De Haas (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and computer program product embodiments for remotely controlling a media device. An embodiment includes an apparatus including a radio frequency (RF) communications chip, a memory, and at least one processor coupled to the RF communications chip and the memory. The at least one processor...