ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,664, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Smart video seek and playback experiences" was invented by Kyle Matthew Splittgerber (San Jose, Calif.), Sheldon Thane Radford (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sunil Ramesh (Saratoga, Calif.), Frank Maker (Livermore, Calif.), Samir Saxena (Los Altos, Calif.) and Ritwick Babbar (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program embodiments are provided for implementing smart video experiences. An example method includes receiving a request to perform a video control operation during playback of a video; bas...