US Patent Issued to ROKU on July 7 for "Multimodal analysis for content item semantic retrieval and identification" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,490, issued on July 7, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multimodal analysis for content item semantic retrieval and identification" was invented by Peter Martigny (San Francisco), Fedor Bartosh (San Jose, Calif.), Danish Shaikh (Dale City, Calif.), Vinh Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.), Manasi Deshmukh (San Jose, Calif.), Ratul Ray (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nitish Aggarwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Srimaruti Manoj Nimmagadda (Saratoga, Calif.), Kapil Kumar (London) and Sameer Girolkar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content retrieval system may receive a query associated with a plurality of content items in a reposit...