US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on May 20 for "Systems and methods for determining status of sensors" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,880, issued on May 20, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems and methods for determining status of sensors" was invented by Lewis Dearman (Austin, Texas), Paul De La Rosa (Pflugerville, Texas), Darrell Fuquay (Dripping Springs, Texas) and Jon Watt (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for monitoring objects. A sensor positioned on an object (e.g., a door) is configured to measure a strength of a magnetic field of a magnet positioned on an associated object (e.g., the door frame). The measurements of the strength of the magnetic field made by t...