ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,547, issued on March 17, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Wireless connection between a streaming device and a wireless communication device" was invented by Karthick Narayanan (Cambridge, Great Britain), Neena Mohanachandran Sailaja (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Jason Schmidlapp (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof for establishing a streaming channel between a wireless communication device and a streaming device through a proximity device. Th...