US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Dec. 16 for "System and method for customer premise equipment (CPE) theft of service (TOS) detection and prevention" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,455, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"System and method for customer premise equipment (CPE) theft of service (TOS) detection and prevention" was invented by Christopher G. Turner (Aurora, Colo.), Jason S. Page (Denver), Robert Hulshof (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) and James H. Alexander (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for evaluating a customer premise equipment (CPE) device to determine whether it is being used to perpetuate theft of service (TOS). A computing system may be configured to collect raw data from a customer premise equipment (CPE) device associat...