ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,779, issued on April 29, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for pairing user device and content application" was invented by Bryan Kenneth Witkowski (Philadelphia), Robert Dandrea (Furlong, Pa.) and Brian Cherne (Cherry Hill, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for pairing devices are disclosed. A user device may be used to navigate to a resource locator using. In response to a determination that an identifier associated with the user device matches at least one identifier associated with one or more devices accessing a first network, a paired communication may be ...