ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,242, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Utilizing a single buffer for a dynamic number of players, each using a dynamically sized buffer" was invented by Offer Atzitz (Menlo Park, Calif.), Wim Michiels (San Jose, Calif.), Huatao Weng (San Jose, Calif.) and Govind Vaidya (San Ramon, 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 utilizing a single storage buffer for a dynamic number of players, each using a dynamically sized virtual buffer. For e...