US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on July 29 for "Methods and systems for determining signal leaks in a network" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,880, issued on July 29, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for determining signal leaks in a network" was invented by Daniel Rice (Denver), John Chrostowski (Denver), Benny Lewandowski (Denver), De Fu Li (Denver) and Robert Gaydos (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Signals used to test for upstream signal leaks in a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network may be interleaved with client data and strategically timed to be received by a leak detection device with a one-hundred percent probability of intercept. A method includes receiving an indication that a user device is in proximity t...