ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,860, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Priority based service to overcome QAM overflow" was invented by Mohan Mahadevaiah (Mysore, India), Srinivasan Odappan (Bengaluru, India), Velusamy Pasuvagoundenpudur Vijayan (Bengaluru, India) and Pratap Doddi (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes techniques for efficiently handling QAM overflow while transmitting online services. The QAM overflow indicates an instance when summation of the set of transmission data rates corresponding to the set of services exceeds threshold data rate. The techniques of present ...