ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,195, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Search systems based on user relevance and revenue generation" was invented by Rahul Agarwal (London), Abhishek Majumdar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yu Zhou (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ratul Ray (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yuzhong Li (Taylor, Texas), Nitish Aggarwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Srimaruti Manoj Nimmagadda (Saratoga, Calif.).

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 determining a list of recommended items in response ...