ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,693, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Removal of a mobile device from a local service domain" was invented by Michael Connelly (Philadelphia) and Hari Venkatram Pedaprolu (King of Prussia, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device configurable for direct communication in a wide area wireless network may join a local service domain and receive services through a gateway of that local service domain. The mobile device may be removed from the local service domain if the mobile device has been inactive for a threshold time period, the gateway device receives data indicating tha...