US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 21 for "Methods and systems for key generation" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,077, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for key generation" was invented by Nancy Louise Davoust (Louisville, Colo.) and Kevin Norman Taylor (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for key generation and device management are disclosed. A root key can be stored on a component which can be integrated with a device, and the component can store a product class identifier. The product class identifier can define a class of products, devices, features, hardware components, or other entities. One or more keys can be generated and stored on the d...