ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,771, issued on July 21, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Remote control interference avoidance" was invented by Ross Gilson (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer readable media, methods and apparatuses may be configured for establishing a communication session between a computing device (e.g., a display device) and a remote control device using a signaling frequency. The computing device and the remote control device may be paired based on a pairing request and a pairing response message. The pairing request may comprise address data of the remote control device and address data of the...