ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,191, issued on July 14, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Displaying multiple multimedia segments in a display device" was invented by Dengzhi Zhang (San Jose, Calif.) and Hugo Du Plooy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, method and/or computer program product embodiments for a multimedia environment that includes a computing device to display multiple multimedia segments within multiple display areas of a display device. The computing device may determine a first multimedia segment including a plurality of frames, and display the first multimedia segment within a firs...