US Patent Issued to Comcast Interactive Media on May 19 for "Device communication, monitoring and control architecture and method" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,198, issued on May 19, was assigned to Comcast Interactive Media LLC (Philadelphia).

"Device communication, monitoring and control architecture and method" was invented by Christopher Dixon (Merion Station, Pa.) and James Poder (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication interface and a device control, management and monitoring system are provided to enable the networking of and communication between multiple devices operating under different protocols. The communication interface may act as a translator or protocol converter that reformats transmissions from one protocol to another based on protocol compatibility...