ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,951, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Location-based parental controls" was invented by Brian James (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Bridget Brennan (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Steven Leardi (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for parental controls based on the location of a wireless computing device. Wireless access points may be located in different locations, e.g., in different rooms of a home. The location of the wireless computing device may be determined based on comparing measured signal strengths to baseline signal strengths associated with the l...