ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,953, issued on July 28, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Overriding multimedia device" was invented by Eric Casten Riepling (Soquel, 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 switching the output of an overriding multimedia device from a first input to a second input or a combination of the first input and the second input. An example embodiment operates by receiving data relating to a multimedia switching event. The example embodiment further operates by d...