ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,630, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Communication network gateways and associated methods" was invented by Chad Riland (Loveland, Colo.), Rob Alderfer (Louisville, Colo.), Dennis Alan Brown (Allen, Texas), Jane Keys (Arvada, Colo.), John C. Bahr (Superior, Colo.), Thomas Holtzman Williams (Longmont, Colo.), Derek DiGiacomo (Chester Springs, Pa.), Austin Ralph Pahl (Boulder, Colo.), Mark Davies (Louisville, Colo.), Yuan Tian (Broomfield, Colo.), Darshak Thakore (Broomfield, Colo.) and David Daniel Smith (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method operable by a co...