US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on May 26 for "Ownership identification for unassigned network devices" (Colorado, Virginia, Illinois, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,082, issued on May 26, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Ownership identification for unassigned network devices" was invented by Eric Paul Dreas (Aurora, Colo.), James Russell Boelter (Englewood, Colo.), John Charles David Morris (Evanston, Ill.), Marc Richard Dostie (Red Bank, N.J.) and Matthew George Grocock (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Candidate data items can be identified from a plurality of data items of one or more datasets, wherein the one or more datasets are associated with one or more network devices comprising an unassigned network device that is unassigned to any network ow...