ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,795, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Remote recovery and re-establishment of identity for network devices with expired authentication via poisoned network services" was invented by James Kruczek (Lone Tree, Colo.), Joshua Edgar Nelson (Aurora, Colo.) and Daniel Patrick Riley Mattox (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network request is received from a network device. The network request includes firmware information indicative of a version of firmware currently installed on the network device. Based on the firmware information, a determination is made that the versio...