ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,848, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems and methods for managing device association" was invented by Asad Haque (Chesterbrook, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for managing device association and access is disclosed. Some embodiments may include receiving, from a user device, a request to access a network device. The request may include a public key of the user device. The request may include a digital certificate, wherein the digital certificate may include the public key of the user device. A distributed database address of the user device may be determ...