ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,563, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CSC Holdings LLC (Bethpage, N.Y.).

"Flexible image repository for customer premises equipment" was invented by Jaison P. Antony (Dix Hills, N.Y.), Heitor J. Almeida (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), John Markowski (Smithtown, N.Y.), Alejandro Hoyos (Jericho, N.Y.) and Peter Caramanica (Westbury, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes an autonomous mechanism for implementing a flexible image repository that includes an image retrieval service and an image repository management application. The flexible image repository performs delta processing to provide a subset of stored...