US Patent Issued to Roku on Oct. 21 for "Automatic parental control based on an identified audience" (Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,491, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatic parental control based on an identified audience" was invented by Philip Golyshko (Westminster, Colo.) and Ramesh Babu Anaparti (Leander, Texas).

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 automatically control parental settings based on audience detected. An example embodiment operates by detecting an audience within a vicinity of a media device based on identification information of the audience rec...