ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,887, issued on March 25, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Monitoring device data and gateway data" was invented by Rhys McCaig (Portland, Ore.), Seetharaman Ramasubramani (Saratoga, Calif.), Gaurav Khandpur (Santa Clara, Calif.), Paddy Vishnubhatt (Los Altos, Calif.), Evan Kaverman (San Francisco), Eric Bertrand (Montreal), Andrea Peiro (Burlingame, Calif.), Jeffrey Barberio (San Jose, Calif.), Remko Vos (San Mateo, Calif.), Jeremy Clark (Mountain View, Calif.), Steven Leardi (New York), Albert Ribe Costa (San Mateo, Calif.) and Thomas Fad (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparat...