ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,538, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for casting content" was invented by Shengzhi Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Alexander James Faaborg (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method provides for the transfer of the output of content from a user device to an external device for output by the external device. External devices may be detected in a physical space, and identified based on previous connection with the user device, based on a shared network or shared system of connected devices including the user device, based on image information captured by th...