ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,392, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for resource management" was invented by Colleen Szymanik (Philadelphia) and Mary Malone (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus are described herein for managing computing resources and computing tasks. A computing capability associated with a computing device can be compared to capability requirement associated with a computing task. In the case that a computing capability associated with a first computing device does not satisfy the capability requirement, an alternate computing device ...