ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,491, issued on July 29, was assigned to ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Method and system for parental control of broadband devices" was invented by Xin Liu (Guangdong, China), Xinkuan Zhou (Guangdong, China), ZiJie Chen (Guangdong, China) and Yanpeng Guo (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system and a non-transitory computer readable medium are disclosed for preventing access to certain content and/or websites by providing preset keywords, a specific WiFi network (e.g., SSID) for certain users, and/or a preset ports that can be enabled and/or disabled, for example, by a toggle. The method includes po...