ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,476, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to CSC Holdings LLC (Bethpage, N.Y.).

"Remote control device testing environment" was invented by Heitor J. Almeida (Elmsford, N.Y.), Bowen Song (Hicksville, N.Y.) and John Markowski (Smithtown, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote control device testing environment evaluates operational performance of physical implementations of remote control devices. This operational performance of the physical implementations of the remote control devices allows the integrated circuits of the remote control devices as well as integrated circuit interfaces electrically coupling these integrated circuits...