US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on June 16 for "Systems and methods for managing digital rights" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,173, issued on June 16, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems and methods for managing digital rights" was invented by Ross Gilson (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for managing digital rights. A transaction may be generated and may comprise an identifier and a decryption key. The decryption key may be configured to decrypt at least a portion of an encrypted content asset accessible by one or more user devices. The transaction may be caused to be stored in a distributed database."

The patent was filed on July 12, 2024, under Application No. 18/771,365....