ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,706, issued on March 3, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Providing rolling updates of distributed systems with a shared cache" was invented by Bill Ataras (Portland, Ore.).

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 for providing rolling updates of distributed systems with a shared cache. An embodiment operates by receiving a data item key corresponding to a request from a user profile operating on a computing device and receiving a version identifier corresponding to a first version of an application operating on the c...