US Patent Issued to ROKU on July 28 for "Control a dimming level of an illumination load by a dimmer device" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,364, issued on July 28, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Control a dimming level of an illumination load by a dimmer device" was invented by Gregory Mack Garner (Sunnyville, 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 dimmer device including a driver, and a controller communicatively coupled to the driver and to a monitor device. The monitor device can include a camera and is configured to take a plurality of images of the illumination load. The controller ...