ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,411, issued on April 7, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cooling subsystems for peripheral devices" was invented by Eric Casten Riepling (San Jose, 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 reducing the temperature of a peripheral device to a computing device. A controller can generate a control signal to operate a cooling subsystem to generate an air flow and distribute the air flow over the peripheral device. The controller can receive an indication signa...