ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,717, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Monitoring and using telemetry data" was invented by Brian Field (Evergreen, Colo.), Jan Van Doorn (Castle Rock, Colo.), Joseph Kiok (Arcadia, Calif.), Daniel Groustra (Littleton, Colo.), Mark Torluemke (Centennial, Colo.), Jim Hall (Centennial, Colo.) and John Leddy (Bryn Mawr, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to monitoring and using telemetry information in various ways. For example, a system that monitors telemetry information may include a user that gathers telemetry information of a device and transmits th...