ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,928, issued on March 17, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Software development platform for internet of things applications" was invented by Donald R Woodward Jr. (Monte Sereno, Calif.), Anthony J. Wood (Palo Alto, Calif.), David L. Stern (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Gregory M. Garner (Key Colony Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof for providing a platform for developing an application that interacts with a set of IoT devices. An embodiment provides a source code editor that enables a user...