ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,670, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for verification of asset availability" was invented by Lewis Richard Buchanan Jr. (Denver) and Joshua Kshensky Arensberg (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to verifying that a content asset is present at a user level. The present disclosure provides video hosting and service (VHS) management systems and methods that can both accurately and timely verify availability of VHS content from multiple content providers using multiple distribution systems."

The patent was filed on June 8, ...