US Patent Issued to ROKU on June 30 for "Providing safety and environmental features using human presence detection" (Danish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,068, issued on June 30, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Providing safety and environmental features using human presence detection" was invented by Jan Neerbek (Beder, Denmark), Rafal Krzysztof Malewski (Aalborg, Denmark), Brian Thoft Moth Moller (Hojberg, Denmark), Paul Nangeroni (San Francisco) and Amalavoyal Narasimha Chari (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for the detection of human presence in front of a plurality of sensors such as those of speakers and a device with a processor, such as a television. Data gathered from ...