US Patent Issued to Roku on Oct. 21 for "Use of crowdsourcing as basis to predict emergency impact and to facilitate emergency response" (California, Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,001, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Use of crowdsourcing as basis to predict emergency impact and to facilitate emergency response" was invented by Karina Levitian (Austin, Texas), Charles Brian Pinkerton (Boulder, Colo.), Sunil Ramesh (Cupertino, Calif.) and Michael Cutter (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for using crowdsourcing as a basis to predict and respond to emergency impact. An example method includes (i) a computing system receiving emergency-state reporting provided by multiple customer premises in a region, (ii) the computing system determining, based o...