US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Aug. 26 for "Evaluating user device activations" (Virginia, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,648, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Evaluating user device activations" was invented by Rui Min (Vienna, Va.), Mariel Sabraw (Denver), Hongcheng Wang (Arlington, Va.) and Stefan Deichmann (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for determining a probability that a prospective wakeup or activation word is not an actual wakeup or activation word for a user device but instead is a word that has characteristics of, or otherwise sounds similar to, a wakeup or activation word and is received as a result of output of a content asset as opposed to...