US Patent Issued to Cujo on Feb. 17 for "Passing connected device identity to service in customer-premises equipment" (Dutch, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,425, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cujo LLC (Covina, Calif.).

"Passing connected device identity to service in customer-premises equipment" was invented by Ivar Beljaars (Numansdorp, Netherlands) and Santeri Kangas (Kirkkonummi, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device identifier is associated with an active medium access control (MAC) address of a connected device connected to a customer-premises equipment (CPE). The CPE is configured to implement a local area network (LAN) for a data communication of the connected device. The device identifier is passed to a service in the CPE using a communication mechanism. The CPE is...