ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,195, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Power control for speaker devices in a wireless media system" was invented by Neil Zhang Kraewinkels Jr. (San Jose, Calif.), Richard Jorgensen (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael I. Smith (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 a wireless media system including a wireless speaker device and a host device forming a peer-to-peer wireless network. The host device provides audio content to the spe...