ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,810, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Television upgrade" was invented by Eric Casten Riepling (Soquel, 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 upgrading one or more display device hardware components. In one embodiment, as new television hardware components become available, the technology described herein allows replacement of original hardware components by external hardware components implemented as an add-in card, stick or equival...