ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,644, issued on May 12, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems and methods for service entitlement authorization" was invented by Mumin Ransom (Philadelphia), Sunil Verma (Philadelphia) and Michael Winslow (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for streamlined entitlement authorization. After a new device joins a network, a network device may provide the new device with the option to automatically authenticate the new device for a plurality of services that are available to other devices on the network. A user may choose the option, and the new dev...