ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,037, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications Management LLC (Philadelphia).
"Methods and systems for status determination" was invented by Chun Hsu (Issaquah, Wash.), Michael Horwitz (Seattle), Chris Orogvany (Seattle) and Alfred Stappenbeck (Edmonds, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for status determination are disclosed. A computing device may determine a status of the computing device or another computing device. One or more actions may be taken based on the status of the computing device or the another computing device."
The patent was filed on Oct. 3, 2023, under Application No. 1...