ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,384, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Methods and apparatus for generating and using dynamic profiles for cable transmission systems" was invented by Hongbiao Zhang (Westford, Mass.), Chain Lee (Lincoln, Mass.), Yanbo Yuan (Carlisle, Mass.), Tao Yu (Andover, Mass.) and Weidong Chen (Boxborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to schedule individual orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) resources on an upstream channel to serve a data transmission request from a downstream...