ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,031, issued on July 7, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Multimedia formats for multiple display areas 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 display device can include a first display area to display a first multimedia segment, and a second display area to display a second multimed...