ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,787, issued on March 17, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Implementing cable modems in single access device by registering modem software stack (MSS) with registration server using media access control (MAC) address" was invented by Shlomo Ovadia (Denver) and Deependra Singh Rawat (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes initiating, by a first system-on-chip (SoC) of an access device, a first modem software stack (MSS) operable to communicate with a registration server and operable to communicate with a first local area network (LAN) port of the access device. The met...