US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on July 14 for "Blockchain for the connected home" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,807, issued on July 14, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Blockchain for the connected home" was invented by Asad Haque (Chesterbrook, Pa.), Noopur Davis (Pittsburgh) and Sridhar Solur (Bryn Mawr, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to access a destination device associated may be received from a user device. The request may comprise a digital certificate. The digital certificate may comprise a public key of the user device. A distributed ledger address of the user device may be determined by applying a deterministic function to the public key of the user device. A distributed ledger entry may...