US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Nov. 11 for "Monitoring of one or more audio/video collection devices" (Pennsylvania, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,486, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Monitoring of one or more audio/video collection devices" was invented by Mehul Patel (Downingtown, Pa.) and David Eng (Louisville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for monitoring of one or more A/V collection devices within a premises. Based on the monitoring, one or more computing devices may determine whether to route or block a data transmission outside a premises. The data transmission may be routed or blocked based on, for example, one or more of the following: whether a transmission wind...