US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on May 13 for "Merging permissions and content output" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,953, issued on May 13, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Merging permissions and content output" was invented by Tyler Kareeson (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Scott Eklund (San Jose, Calif.), Francisco Niebres (San Francisco), Preston Smalley (Danville, Calif.), Josh Kennedy (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Donald J. Stecher (Downingtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to determining that a wireless device associated with one user account is proximate to a computing device associated with another user account. In response to determining the proximity of the two devices, one or more of...