ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,594, issued on June 30, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for network management" was invented by Asad Haque (Philadelphia) and Bahar Limaye (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for network management are described. A network device may provide a network that is accessible using a network credential. An internet of things (IoT) device may be required to be configured or provisioned before joining the network. The IoT device may be associated with a scannable identifier. A user device may determine the scannable identifier and,...