ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,566, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems and methods for network privacy" was invented by Charles A. Helfinstine (Wynnewood, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A privacy gateway may communicate with user devices located at a plurality of premises. The privacy gateway may receive a data packet, from one of the user devices, indicating destinations, such as other computing devices, located external to the premises. The privacy gateway may decrypt at least a portion of the data packet to determine that at least a portion of data in the packet is associated with the user device. T...