ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,754, issued on May 6, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for managing content restrictions" was invented by Kevin Flanagan (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for managing blackout restrictions. A user device may retrieve a blackout condition from a blackout device. The blackout device may be a node in plurality of blackout nodes. Each of the blackout nodes may store blackout conditions for different corresponding content. The user device may retrieve the blackout condition from a blackout device associated with content in response to a r...