US Patent Issued to Roku on Oct. 14 for "Method and system for generating a visual composition of user reactions in a shared content viewing session" (California, Texas, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,682, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and system for generating a visual composition of user reactions in a shared content viewing session" was invented by Ronica Jethwa (Mountain View, Calif.), Sunil Ramesh (Cupertino, Calif.), Michael Cutter (Golden, Colo.) and Karina Levitian (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example method in connection with a shared content viewing session in which multiple users are receiving and viewing respective instances of the same media content in a synchronized manner is disclosed. The example method includes (i) detecting that each of...