US Patent Issued to Roku on May 20 for "Reverse wireless discovery for adding an IoT device to an IoT ecosystem" (Nevada, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,036, issued on May 20, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reverse wireless discovery for adding an IoT device to an IoT ecosystem" was invented by Carl Sassenrath (Reno, Nev.) and Greg Garner (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system to facilitate adding a new IoT device to an IoT ecosystem that includes an existing IoT device, where a mobile device is configured to control the IoT ecosystem. In an example, the new device detects a wireless broadcast from the existing device that provides identification information of the mobile device. In response, the new device then uses the provided identifi...