US Patent Issued to ROKU on June 17 for "Method and system for generating synthetic video advertisements" (California, Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,115, issued on June 17, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and system for generating synthetic video advertisements" was invented by Sunil Ramesh (Cupertino, Calif.), Michael Cutter (Golden, Colo.), Charles Brian Pinkerton (Boulder, Colo.) and Karina Levitian (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example method includes (i) obtaining a set of user attributes for a user of a content-presentation device; (ii) based on the set of user attributes, obtaining structured data and determining a textual description of the structured data; (iii) transforming, using a text-to-speech engine, the textu...