US Patent Issued to Roku on July 22 for "Secure payment using a radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled remote control" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,477, issued on July 22, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Secure payment using a radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled remote control" was invented by David Ph. Weis (Bee Cave, Texas) and Jason A. Korosec (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, device, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for using radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled remote control for providing payment information for the media systems. An example embodiment operates by a computer-implemented method. The method includes rec...