ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,654, issued on June 3, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Advertisement placement for stream media" was invented by Matthew Grover (Cardiff, Great Britain).

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 coordinating the display of advertisements for steam media. A media device can display onto a display device multiple segments of a content segment from a source device, where the multiple segments of the content segment can be separated by unequal time durations for advert...