US Patent Issued to Roku on Oct. 20 for "Controlling media-content presentation based on movement of media-player device from home location to visited location" (California, Texas, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,891, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Controlling media-content presentation based on movement of media-player device from home location to visited location" was invented by Sunil Ramesh (Cupertino, Calif.), Michael Cutter (Golden, Colo.), Ronica Jethwa (Mountain View, Calif.) and Karina Levitian (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for controlling media-content presentation. An example method includes a computing system detecting that a media-player device has moved from a home location of the media-player device to a visited location and that the media-player device is c...