ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,311, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Methods, devices, and systems for estimating video data usage without bandwidth limits" was invented by Emir Halepovic (Somerset, N.J.) and Cheuk Yiu Ip (Metuchen, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, adjusting bandwidth allocated for a first group of communication devices communicatively coupled to a first communication network from a bandwidth limited allocation to a no bandwidth limited allocation, and measuring a first group of metrics associated with the first group of communication devic...