US Patent Issued to Roku on July 7 for "Automatic parental control using a remote control or mobile app" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,023, issued on July 7, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatic parental control using a remote control or mobile app" was invented by Andrew Soh (Austin, Texas) and Jeffrey John Peters (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein include a method that operates by receiving, at a media device, one or more signals from a remote control. The media device identifies a user currently using the remote control based on the signals. Then, the media device selects content to make available based on the identified user. In some embodiments, the media device identifies the user by using the ...