US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on July 28 for "User location and identity awareness" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,052, issued on July 28, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"User location and identity awareness" was invented by Corey Farrell (Lansdowne, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A location of a computing device may be determined by determining the range of a communication. Several different wireless communication protocols and/or wireless networks (e.g., Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Cellular, and/or GPS) may be used to determine the user's location. When the user's location is determined, one or more actions (e.g., granting access to content) may be performed based on the user's location."

The patent was filed on Jun...