ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,315, issued on March 18, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Wireless gateway supporting public and private networks" was invented by Sukhjinder Singh (Upper Darby, Pa.) and John Carvalho (Malvern, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interface device may provide a first wireless network and a second wireless network in a user's premise. The interface device may encourage some user devices to connect to the second wireless network without controlling the user devices. For example, the interface device may receive a request from a device to access its first wireless network. The interface device may the...