ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,634, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Customer premises equipment access using password-of-the-day" was invented by Deependra Singh Rawat (Highlands Ranch, Colo.), Shlomo Ovadia (Denver) and Daniel Roy Lynch (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for configuring a main or security processor in a customer premises equipment (CPE) with an encrypted seed for password-of-the-day (PoTD) processing is described. A CPE includes a modem processor, a main processor, and a PoTD component included on the main processor. The main processor receives, via the modem ...