US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for detecting security status" (Pennsylvania, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,964, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems and methods for detecting security status" was invented by Ryan Cunningham (Philadelphia) and David Yorkey (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for determining a security status are described. Magnetic fields may be detected by sensors that are positioned to determine the location of a magnet. The location of the magnet may be used to determine the configuration of an object to which the magnet is attached. The use of multiple sensors may be used to detect null regions of magnetic fields th...