ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,711, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Search systems based on user relevance and reward generation" was invented by Abhishek Majumdar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rahul Agarwal (London), Nitish Aggarwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yu Zhou (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kapil Kumar (London), Ratul Ray (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yuzhong Li (Taylor, Texas) and Srimaruti Manoj Nimmagadda (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments present techniques for determining a list of recommended items in response to a user query. An embodiment can determine a first ordered list of items including a plurality of items stored...