ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,281, issued on May 20, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for protecting cellular network messages" was invented by Tao Wan (Ottawa), Bernard McKibben (Golden, Colo.), Mark J. Poletti (Louisville, Colo.) and Ruoyu Sun (Westminister, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client-side electronic device includes a receiver, a processor, and a memory. The receiver communicates with a message server over a communication medium of a communication network. The memory stores computer-executable instructions, which, when executed by the processor, cause the device to receive, from the ...