ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,822, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications Inc. (Philadelphia).

"Methods, systems, and apparatuses for improved network leak identification" was invented by Lawrence Wolcott Jr. (Englewood, Colo.), Jonathan Leech (Philadelphia), Thomas Bach (Philadelphia) and Jon-En Wang (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for identifying network leaks are described herein. Data associated with network leaks may be collected and analyzed to determine a network leak type(s) associated with each network leak. Each network leak type may be associated with a particular radio frequency (RF...