US Patent Issued to ROKU on Sept. 22 for "Mesh network relay" (California, Texas, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,157, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Mesh network relay" was invented by Carl Sassenrath (Ukiah, Calif.), Robert C. Curtis (Napa, Calif.), Manas C. Saksena (San Jose, Calif.), Gregory M Garner (Key Colony Beach, Fla.), Scott E. De Haas (Austin, Texas) and David L. Stern (Los Gatos, 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 relaying data in a mesh network. In an embodiment, characteristics for each of a plurality of nodes that comprise ...