ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,442, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Setting quality of service (QOS) for a network based on user detection" was invented by Timothy Clark Bleidorn (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A broadband network gateway (BNG) implementing a plurality of virtual gateway routers, each virtual gateway router (VGR) operable to serve as a gateway router for a particular local area network (LAN) of a plurality of LANS, receives a human presence indicator from a customer premise equipment (CPE) of a LAN, the human presence indicator indicating one of that a human has been det...