ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,178, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Secure remote-less configuration of a media playback device" was invented by Cameron Esfahani (San Jose, Calif.), Brian King (San Jose, Calif.), Mark Young (San Jose, Calif.) and Alex Bishop (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to embodiments for securely reconfiguring a media playback device. For example, a method may include determining whether a media playback device is being controlled by a user. In response to determining that the media playback device is not being controlled by the user, the method may further inc...