ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,163, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to tmosphere.tv (Austin, Texas).
"QR remote control" was invented by Jeff DiTullio (Austin, Texas), Alen Durbuzovic (Austin, Texas) and Brent Hays (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for implementing a virtual remote control for a streaming content device based on a QR code associated with the streaming device. In certain embodiments, a method may comprise implementing a virtual remote control for a streaming device, including providing an interface for the virtual remote control to a user device over a network, receiving an input to the virtual remote c...