ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,390, issued on June 24, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Architecture and method for aggregating and interacting with multiple third-party applications" was invented by Michael Horwitz (Seattle), Benjamin E. Greenberg (Philadelphia) and Jiuqing Deng (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for generating tokens for user devices to request content items from one or more content delivery networks via networks provided by a network service provider. The tokens may be generated based on rules provided by the network service provider and may indicate w...